Example sentences of "my [noun sg] taught me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My husband taught me when we were first married , ’ said the elder woman , licking her burnt lower lip . |
| 2 | ‘ My father taught me the value of manners and being a gentleman . |
| 3 | When I was six , my father taught me how to draw profiles . |
| 4 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 5 | My father taught me to read at a very early age . |
| 6 | Every journey , wherever you go , is a new education — that 's what my father taught me ! |
| 7 | My father taught me to shoot , I ca n't imagine why he did n't teach me to drive . ’ |
| 8 | Years ago , in 1909 , my uncle taught me rope-making . |
| 9 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 10 | My dad taught me . |
| 11 | That is how my master taught me . |
| 12 | ‘ My master taught me . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Ford writes only : ‘ My mother taught me it was wrong to crow . |
| 14 | My mother taught me that the female body is something to be ashamed of . |
| 15 | But my mother taught me never to give up . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ My mother taught me that . |
| 17 | Songs My Mother Taught Me , by Martin Dalby , opened the concert and this may have been a planning mistake , for its moony , relaxed idiom with little rhythmic excitement might have fared better later on . |