Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] my [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 2 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 3 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 4 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 5 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 6 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 7 | Washbrook , the four-square and fearless warrior with the faded , jaunty-peaked , blue cap of both Lancashire and England , was 75 on Wednesday , the day I dared my many happy returns , and still as robust , hale and healthy as ever . |
| 8 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |
| 9 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 10 | ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . ) |
| 11 | ‘ The first time I heard my own voice ? |
| 12 | My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them . |