Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 9.15 Callahan and Ted still had n't showed at Jocko 's , and I 'd forgotten my webbed gloves . |
| 2 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 3 | Always keen to do things economically if I could , I 'd made my own jesses . |
| 4 | I wish I 'd got my woolly hat . |
| 5 | I 'd got my 10 pences , but if I stopped to use a phone box I 'd lose him . |
| 6 | Having gone that long undetected by the enemies sitting almost next to me , I 'd got my over-confident bravado back with interest . |
| 7 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 8 | I 'd got my own way about the home birth after all ! ’ |
| 9 | It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd had my first experience with American enterprise . |
| 11 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 12 | They what they knew after I 'd had my fresh claim interview or something like that ? |
| 13 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 14 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 15 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 16 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 17 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 18 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home and I still think Bob Seger is crap . |
| 19 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 20 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual squat . |
| 21 | Only music that stems from spiritual impoverishment enriches my life , Oh , like everybody else I had my summer of soul , like a lot of white boys , thought I 'd found my truest voice . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , Jinkwa , ’ breathed Fakrid heavily , ‘ if only you 'd inherited my common sense . |
| 23 | If I 'd followed my own path , I 'd probably have done something like that [ arts ] . |
| 24 | I 'd practised my straightforward laugh , |
| 25 | Whether it was simply mere enjoyment or relief that I 'd survived my worst imaginings I do n't know — but it felt good . |
| 26 | The bank suddenly started asking for guarantees from my husband , even though I 'd held my own account for two years . |
| 27 | I mean , I myself , for instance , after I 'd published my first book on psychoanalysis in nineteen eighty was summoned to the House of Commons by and given a dinner , in the House of Commons Restaurant , which is n't very good actually , least it was n't then , and effectively I was told by this great man was , noticed , had a very high opinion of his own ego , that erm , you know the left was in charge of psychoanalysis in this country , and had better conform or shut up . |
| 28 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 29 | He was so loving and in a moment I had bared my few troubles , and felt it almost criminal to worry him with one 's little difficulties . |
| 30 | However , by this time I had outgrown my adolescent appetite for being shocked and had acquired some knowledge of parapsychology . |