Example sentences of "[vb past] my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 2 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 3 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 4 | She became my legal guardian . |
| 5 | So Anna became my legal guardian . |
| 6 | became my intimate terror . |
| 7 | Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite . |
| 8 | From then on the hospital became my second home . |
| 9 | Therefore the new girl became my best friend and has been ever since ( with a few eruptions ! ) because she is a very loyal , trustworthy , non-possessive , generous and kind girl . |
| 10 | I meant the hon. Gentleman , but he almost became my hon. Friend because of his grudging acceptance of the principle of testing . |
| 11 | People of all shapes and sizes became my biggest threat and a vital potential source of assistance . |
| 12 | I got my personal weapon and kit together , checked under the car , and headed for Angelo . |
| 13 | Finally I got my long-awaited appointment to see Dr John Randell , the ‘ patron saint of transsexuals ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I struggled and twisted and got my right hand free . |
| 15 | I glanced at my reflection to admire the effect and then I got my second shock that evening . |
| 16 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 17 | I got my current job in 1990 . |
| 18 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 19 | On the first Thursday , I got my first dose of an ‘ on-call ’ period . |
| 20 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 21 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 22 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 23 | When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile . |
| 25 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 26 | I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom . |
| 27 | Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands . |
| 28 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 29 | So I got my I got my first christmas present . |
| 30 | I first became involved with releasing barn owls into the wild about two years ago , shortly after i got my first breeding pair , Barny and Mrs Barny . |