Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 2 | Made into the lower part of the boot is a special ‘ water shed ’ membrane which successfully helped keep my feet dry . |
| 3 | So I was continually forced into learning new stuff very quickly , and that helped develop my ear . ’ |
| 4 | ( 1b ) I did eat my porridge . |
| 5 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 6 | I did make my escape from Roundhay — by a route taken by many of my contemporaries : higher education . |
| 7 | Sharpening the blades of an eighteen-inch cylinder is a four-hour job , so he really did need my help . |
| 8 | The chants which did catch my ear on sat were that newish Brian Deane one again , but I still have n't heard the beginning , I only know it from the ‘ scores off the bar , f**k Cantona ’ line — anyone else know it in full ? |
| 9 | I did bring my address book with me . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll say , ’ Ven snarled , and was over by the door , blocking out the light from the sitting-room when , ‘ I never did like my women that clinging ! ’ he barked brutally . |
| 11 | ‘ He did like my wedding present ! ’ |
| 12 | I was now drifting around in my own head , although I did see my mother rush in . |
| 13 | I said Oh I said oh you did use my hand blender , I did leave it for you then she |
| 14 | In 1986 I noticed that the Americans and Italians were wearing extremely skintight shorts , and while there was no chance I was going to wear those , they did set my imagination in motion . |
| 15 | I stayed where I was , trying to look indifferent , though I did set my beer aside and asked the bartender for a calming shot of Hypergrog . |
| 16 | You could call ingenuity if you like and er but it 've , did apply my lad and er once you 'd got one , you could have er one cast and dress it up and you 'd got another one , you know what I mean . |
| 17 | Incidentally , he never did baptise my breast with Mississippi water ; the only time a bottle passed between us was when I sent him some Taburel water to stop his hair falling out . |
| 18 | It was really extremely hazardous , and as we stood there peering vainly into the blanket of fog it did cross my mind that we were all quite crazy . |
| 19 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 20 | ‘ It did cross my mind , but how can I when there are no defendants ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It did cross my mind , ’ said Clarissa . |
| 22 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |
| 23 | It did cross my mind that she might actually get across the damn thing and hit land before the wind dropped , but I reckoned that even if that happened I had done my best , and honour was satisfied . |
| 24 | ‘ Did cross my mind . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , now it did cross my mind , that it would be nice just to see it and have a talk and a demonstration , but I think our meetings are too big really for that sort of demonstration , I wonder if we could have it at the handicraft afternoon . |
| 26 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 27 | Yeah but what he did take my Walkman for though ? |
| 28 | The march of the Ents to Isengard makes true the report of the frightened messenger to the incredulous Macbeth in Act V Scene 5 : ‘ As I did stand my watch upon the hill/I looked toward Birnam and anon methought/The wood began to move . ’ |
| 29 | Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature . |
| 30 | " As a matter of fact , " said Clara , " I did put my name down to do a Dip Ed . |