Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 2 | Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite . |
| 3 | And I had a thought that made my whole body thrill with shame . |
| 4 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 5 | When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for . |
| 6 | So that accelerated my own ideas and I came over to England with that in mind . |
| 7 | But the things that seized my whole attention were the yellow blobs of pus in the corners of the eyes , the much purulent discharge from the nostrils and the photophobia which made the dog blink painfully at the light from the surgery window . |
| 8 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 9 | The first thing to catch my eye were the floats , and in particular the ones that suited my local river — the Trent . |
| 10 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 11 | I did n't advertise for a partner but I went to the single 's and divorcee club and met my second husband and its magic the second time around . |
| 12 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 13 | I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements . |
| 14 | Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash . |
| 15 | ‘ I struggled and twisted and got my right hand free . |
| 16 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |
| 17 | I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend 's constituency with him . |
| 18 | I took another long drag at the Capstan , and inspected my trembling hand . |
| 19 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 20 | I could n't lie still , and found my oblivious companions both irritating and enviable . |
| 21 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 22 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 23 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 24 | I climbed the highest of these one day when Mallaig was too crowded with visitors for my liking and suffered my only experience of hostility from a Highlander . |
| 25 | ‘ I fell out and banged my funny bone . |
| 26 | A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail . |
| 27 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 28 | In fact , since I had already made my holiday plans , I went ahead and paid my second visit to the railway , together with my wife and eldest daughter . |
| 29 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 30 | I got the garage window open , and shone my little torch inside . |