Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 2 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 3 | I got her through my old friend , Blandly , who , with everyone in Bristol , worked hard to find me a suitable ship when they heard the reason for our voyage — treasure , I mean . |
| 4 | I found it in my old snap album . |
| 5 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 6 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |
| 7 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 8 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 9 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 10 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 11 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 12 | It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair . |
| 13 | I saw Him as my only friend . |
| 14 | So I put him in my tropical set up along with my Gouramis , Mollies , Guppies and Plecs . |
| 15 | I bought it with my conservation hat on , and think it is well worth doing . ’ |
| 16 | Folding the lids of the box together , I hoisted it under my left arm and carried it to the Fire Exit . |