Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 2 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 3 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 4 | Addy adjusted it fastidiously above my hollow-eyed , pasty face . |
| 5 | Anyway , James Brown — who ‘ poached ’ me from Sounds to procure information on ‘ rock ’ music , an alien genre to NME staff flourishing on a staple diet of Ecstasy and Ribena in the halcyon daze of ‘ indie dance ’ in 1990 — ordered me out on my first ‘ job ’ to interview Page Three ‘ model ’ Maria Whittaker , whose debut single had stormed the UK Charts at Number 138 … with Kevin Cummins … |
| 6 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 7 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 8 | ‘ I worked it out during my second week here . |
| 9 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 10 | But something , some sharper , unaccustomed sound , brought me out of my first deep sleep into listening wakefulness . |
| 11 | Mark 's voice brought me back to my own predicament . |
| 12 | I had to be at his side as he opened his eyes and saw me there in my lonely vigil … |
| 13 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 14 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 15 | So then I checked it out with my common sense which said , ‘ Stay away , it will end in tears . ’ |
| 16 | What bothered me most after my long absence were the forests of TV aerials on even the humblest dwellings . |
| 17 | Shuddering , I flicked it off with my lathered razor . |
| 18 | Rather rough , I 'm afraid , but I intended it only for my own use . |