Example sentences of "[prep] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 2 | There was no excitement about my first bra — I even had to pay , because my mum claimed I did n't need one ! |
| 3 | ‘ The majority of my early songs were about my first girlfriend . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 5 | In his reply of 21 February 1935 , he added a footnote in his own hand which put the matter aptly ; but about my second article he had his doubts . |
| 6 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |
| 7 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 8 | If I get the result I wanted there is consolidation rather than extension of my committee skills , but if I do not get the result I wanted then I have learned something and I form a new hypothesis about my next interjection strengthened by this new learning . |
| 9 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 10 | At some time during my second afternoon at the centre , a Bonny Baby competition was held , but I missed it all in a blur of Mickeys . |
| 11 | During my second evening at the hotel there was a knock at the door . |
| 12 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 13 | During my second long vacation from Oxford in the summer of 1931 , I joined a Hull trawler which fished off Iceland . |
| 14 | ‘ I worked it out during my second week here . |
| 15 | ‘ Also , we need to give an especially big Berkeley welcome to Dr Dorothy Streeter , who 's joining our art department , ’ intoned the headmaster during my first school assembly there . |
| 16 | During my first round at the Masters I four-putted the second green and a member of the gallery shouted ‘ welcome to Augusta ’ . |
| 17 | In fact , during my first days under Mr Farraday , I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me . |
| 18 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 19 | During my first year at the Boys ' School in 1922 , Bonfire Night was held on a Saturday ; November 5th falling on a Sunday that year . |
| 20 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 21 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 22 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 23 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 25 | ‘ I won close to Pounds 100,000 in four years on the tour — £60,000 of that during my first season in 1988 . |
| 26 | During my first hours there I was severely tortured . |
| 27 | During my first stay in China in 1984 , it was very rare indeed to see young people holding hands in public and I clearly remember the expressions of shock when a student dared to ask , in a packed lecture hall , if students in Britain were allowed to ‘ talk love ’ . |
| 28 | Alec Reid had treated several cases of polio during my first year or so in Koraloona , but there were never any signs of an epidemic . |
| 29 | During my first dinner in a Goan house I was astonished to see the ladies greet each other with kisses on both cheeks . |
| 30 | During my first few days in the refuge , I feel myself descend into depression . |