Example sentences of "my [noun sg] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Also my mum had to share a bedroom with me and she did n't like watching someone else seeing to me . |
2 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
3 | The lump on my head had lost a lot of weight during the night and after five minutes under a tepid shower I was n't feeling too bad . |
4 | My father had become a Spiritualist almost by accident . |
5 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
6 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
7 | I wish my father had left a description of his encounter with Balcha but I can find none in his letters or despatches . |
8 | My father had purchased a box of Maltesers , the chocolates with the less fattening centre , to sustain him through this no holds barred erotic horror film . |
9 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |
10 | I moved back to Edinburgh too because er my er my family had taken a yearning for Edinburgh , they did n't like East Kilbride so I says left . |
11 | Southgate was in his cups though Mandeville looked subdued and stared speculatively at me as if my outburst had revealed a side of my character he had not noticed before . |