Example sentences of "[subord] my [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 2 | The horse received the odd joke mention from the commentator , until my father smashed the radio , finished the whisky , and suffered a near-fatal nosebleed . |
| 3 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 4 | Now you kno if my arm touched the back it would start it off . |
| 5 | Because my mum took the trouble to buy a Black doll . |
| 6 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 7 | ‘ Since my husband died the gallery has become one of the foremost in New York . |
| 8 | I clambered into the trench and was asleep before my head hit the ground . |
| 9 | Before we before my mam had the house in Road that was just what you might sort of still call it . |
| 10 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 11 | I found that the edge of my left hand was cramped up when I attempted to negotiate the upper frets and any urgency in so doing was rewarded by a considerable jolt as my hand hit the buffers , so to speak . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 14 | Her charms increased every day , not only in my eye but in the eyes of all who beheld her , for my mother took the greatest delight in her waiting maid . |
| 15 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
| 16 | When they complained to the hunt er , the Master brought er a leg of pork round , not a leg of lamb I might add , a leg of pork to er , appease them er one other point , ooh yeah , there was , is one other point actually , when my daughter challenged the hunt she was appalled by the arrogance of these pink coated hooray Henrys who totally ignored her plight and er just carried on with whatever they wished to do . |
| 17 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 18 | Yeah it was like when my mother-in-law had the |
| 19 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 20 | ‘ When my mother died the only persons to whom I owed duty were my lord who had followed the cross , and Marian , my lord 's daughter . |
| 21 | I knew what she would suffer when my father heard the truth . |
| 22 | There I was chucking copies of a certain rival mag into the fire when my father entered the room brandishing the latest copy of ZZAP ! |