Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] my [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To explain my curiosity I should perhaps explain my definition of excellence . |
| 2 | Perhaps I 'd better introduce my sort of position here . |
| 3 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , if that should be the case , perhaps you 'd better mention my predicament to Lady Claudia , ’ Cleo said . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I 'd better get my ass into gear . |
| 6 | Later on , I ventured to express the hope that one day he would perhaps visit my family in Merstham . |
| 7 | I do not want my use of pronouns to slip by unnoticed : I want readers to think about it , and to act on their conclusions . |
| 8 | Zander have no problems sorting out live baits in coloured water in which I would not fancy my chances for pike using that method . |
| 9 | If I 'm a worm , I 'm a fairly angry worm , but then I did not like my interview with Colonel Richardson , and I did not like it because he was n't angry , he was hurt . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like to be busy and I could n't just stop my life after tennis . |
| 11 | He does not share my talent for deceit , the agility of lies . |
| 12 | He did not share my passion for Frank O'Hara , Robert Duncan , Denise Levertov ( whom I had met in London and Paris ) , James Merrill and the early Pound ; nor did I agree with his high estimate of Robert Lowell , Howard Nemerov and T.S . |
| 13 | Or should I just change my name to Keith ? |
| 14 | Yes , I know er I can I just get my bits of paper on there , |
| 15 | ‘ Might I just put my ego in formalin and send it to him ? ’ |
| 16 | and I ca n't just put my finger on Abington Grove . |
| 17 | ‘ I could not entrust my life to strangers , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It did not replace my fascination for mammals , birds and reptiles . |
| 19 | ‘ I could not fault my players for commitment . |
| 20 | I accepted plate and cup , thanked her , and wondered how on earth , into a conversation which had ranged from hydroponics to knitting to the situation in the smaller countries of the Warsaw Pact to the best breed of wool for spinning tweed to the honey and the siting of the hives — how on earth I could decently introduce my queries about Ewen Mackay . |
| 21 | I will hopefully complete my Bachelor of Commerce Degree this year and will have a future career in marketing . |
| 22 | We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted . |
| 23 | ( Does that mean that you will also service my car without charge , apart from the cost of the parts ? ) |
| 24 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 25 | ‘ The early evening is my best time of day ; I can also play my type of music — Harry Connick Jnr to Oleta Adams to Jesus Jones . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll probably lose my sense of direction and fall and hurt myself , ’ he sighed . |
| 27 | ‘ And if you had n't interfered and ruined my life I might not now have my career in ruins ! |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't regard my engagement to Peter as any sort of mistake , ’ she managed to say . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know my way around Beirut . ’ |
| 30 | I ca n't sacrifice my sense of self-preservation for you . |