Example sentences of "and my [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | may already have spoken to you about her and my plan to have a training/recreation weekend in St Andrews ( Saturday ) and Edinburgh ( Friday evening and Sunday ) in the autumn , 19–21 November , |
| 2 | Later that evening , they were in a pub and my friend placed a pound coin in another condom machine . |
| 3 | I felt my stomach lurch and my heart beat a little faster . |
| 4 | I 've had erm on two separate Sundays I 've had volunteers to come and help but and my son-in-law made a silt trap , and the Water Board erm made the sluice gate , because it goes into their stream , and it was part of their responsibility . |
| 5 | Malc 's large , happy family filled a quarter of the church , Pop and my Mom filled a quarter of a pew and the rest of the church was bursting at the seams with most of the council estate , curious as to whether I was ‘ showing ’ or not . |
| 6 | The nearest one is in the next townland and my bicycle has a puncture . |
| 7 | Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘ |
| 8 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
| 9 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 10 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 11 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 12 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 13 | No matter how corny the characters in the picture postcard parish of Rathcullen , I recognised the fields , I knew the smell of Guinness from drunk men 's breath , and my father wore a cap just like Darby O'Gill 's . |
| 14 | Well I used to ride a motorbike a and my father had a Triumph motorbike because he bought I do n't why he , why he bought it and he was terrified of it cos it was very fierce ! |
| 15 | Neither had " a head for figures " the venture failed within months and my father found a job as a tradesman again . |
| 16 | I organized that at Conway Hall now , in most reference books my agent 's name is listed , and my agent got a call saying the minute I began to read from that book I would die . |
| 17 | I began to hum and before I knew it , a tidal wave of crystal-clear sound swept my voice to hitherto undiscovered heights and depths , racing through tunnels of octaves until the sound was n't my own and my ears heard a stranger singing . |
| 18 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 19 | My father was a landscape architect , and my mother ran a nursery . |
| 20 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 21 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 22 | ‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says . |
| 23 | And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma . |
| 24 | When the war ended my father remained in the Army , and my mother became a dressmaker to her friends and the neighbours . |
| 25 | As I 've told you , my father was a landscape architect , and my mother started a small business growing herbs and old-fashioned roses to start with . |