Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plans seemed nothing but vainglory . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 3 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 4 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 5 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 6 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
| 7 | Well my mum got it for |
| 8 | I had that and my mum sent me to ballet classes |
| 9 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |
| 10 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
| 11 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 12 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 13 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 14 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My agent told you about the remuneration ? ’ |
| 16 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 17 | No , my mummy read it to me . |
| 18 | My great-uncle brought them from Italy ; he was terribly proud of them . ’ |
| 19 | One of my gentlemen taught it to me . |
| 20 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 21 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 22 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 23 | PAMELA : [ interrupting ] Aye , but on a Thursday was your poor Pamela baptised , on a Thursday my lady took me from my parents into her protection . |
| 24 | The Spender is ‘ My parents kept me from children who were rough ’ : |
| 25 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 26 | ‘ The pushchair and all its added extras was another major expense , but luckily my parents treated me to it . |
| 27 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
| 28 | My parents sold it in 1985 , when my father was very ill ( he died in 1986 ) . |
| 29 | My parents loved me without conditions , so they and all the stories told me ; I seek a lover who will do the same . |
| 30 | I thought I was doing what I , and I alone , wanted to do , but my pursuit of academic superiority shows that I was still striving to be the person my parents wanted me to be . |