Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] my [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 2 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 3 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 4 | I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’ |
| 5 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 6 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 7 | The first questions which faced me after my own Worst Day were simple . |
| 8 | I claimed it for my own . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You just barged in here , grabbed hold of one of my letters , then locked me in my own sitting-room . |
| 10 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She hit me with my own stick , doctor , ’ he whispered , displaying the scrapes and cuts received in his flying accident . |
| 12 | ‘ I was trying to save some of the Guinness for you , but she hit me with my own stick . |
| 13 | ‘ I loved him in my own way . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw it with my own two eyes . |
| 15 | I felt it on my own … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 17 | " No , I got it by my own self . " |
| 18 | The smell of couscous and other grain which filled the air constantly reminded me of my own situation . |
| 19 | I was fond of her , she reminded me of my own kid back home . |
| 20 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 21 | She sort of reminded me of my own grandmother , back in Vermont . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I bought it with my own money . ’ |
| 23 | I did it on my own . |
| 24 | ( I got a bent line if I did it on my own , but here was one to follow . ) |
| 25 | He did it for my own good . |
| 26 | But on the whole they left me to my own devices . |
| 27 | I did not know what to say in reply , so I took his hands and held them beside my own , showing first the backs , then the palms , then measuring them one against the other , palm to palm — something the Japanese would often do in comparing their smaller , lighter hands with my grosser ones . |
| 28 | When I was seven , Dad bought me some bantams , a cock and two hens , and these supplied me with my own child-sized eggs . |
| 29 | I held it between my own , uncovered it to see the fingers lying on mine : a square hand , fine-boned , fine-textured , not large . |