Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
2 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
3 | 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 … |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I worked it out during my second week here . |
7 | But something , some sharper , unaccustomed sound , brought me out of my first deep sleep into listening wakefulness . |
8 | Mark 's voice brought me back to my own predicament . |
9 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
10 | 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 |
11 | So then I checked it out with my common sense which said , ‘ Stay away , it will end in tears . ’ |
12 | Shuddering , I flicked it off with my lathered razor . |