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Example sentences of "my [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was the month before my thirty-third birthday , and I was offered the appointment .
2	‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’
3	It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again .
4	Dorothy Bohannon , Henry Avenue , Bowburn , Durham : It was my 17th birthday .
5	I suppose it is a bit crass to say the one with me on it — on my 45th birthday , I think — but that 's the one alright .
6	‘ Harry is my eighty-ninth baby , ’ Miss Maynard went on , proudly .
7	‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes .
8	‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes .
9	My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago .
10	As this was my hundredth phone call , I got some publicity in the local press and the dog was found .
11	‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’
12	‘ On my fourteenth birthday — you 've always been around at the most important moments in my life , Harry . ’
13	‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’
14	Yes , I had my fourteenth birthday here .
15	So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund .
16	It was my fourteenth birthday .
17	I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio .
18	Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that .
19	Three days after my sixteenth birthday , in August 1944 , Butler 's Education Act received the royal assent .
20	On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me !
21	Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby .
22	Although some people join the ranks of the old with relish and gloat over the advancing years ( 'I 'm in my 80th year' — i.e. 79 ) , others have commented on the incongruous feeling the idea of being old creates within them .
23	Ten days ago , I spent my 33rd birthday flat on my back , contemplating the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death ( yup , it was a happy , happy day ) and wondering what my underlings would do to this column in my absence .
24	My second machine was somewhat similar , but had more needles .
25	Later , over a tandoori dinner , I was on my second lager , and something , I do n't know what , got into me .
26	On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily .
27	My father and mother both died in the Royal Hampshire Country Hospital ; my second grandchild was born there ; my daughter had her appendix removed there and my wife had an MOT there .
28	My second uncle must have slept in this room .
29	Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then .
30	And I have been told that as a baby I conformed to this pattern , in contrast to my first sister who was ‘ delicate ’ and my second sister who was ‘ placid ’ .