Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] my [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 2 | And within or without these dancing shapes and from deep within the brighter flame of my own imagination I can escape any pressure from any source . |
| 3 | As I walked back from the bar with my second pint I caught sight of Karen and Dennis at a table in the corner . |
| 4 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 5 | From the safety of my heterosexual relationship I wore my Gaysoc badge out on the streets . |
| 6 | As I laboured through the rest of my own meal we turned our attention to less personally charged topics , like the latest terrorist attack in Northern Ireland and the growing tension in the Lebanon . |
| 7 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 8 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 9 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 10 | If I win a prize with my Premium Bond we will go together . |
| 11 | With the patience and advice from my local vet we set up a recovery programme . |
| 12 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 13 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 14 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 15 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 16 | But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life . |
| 17 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 18 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 19 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 20 | Other sites in connection with my current project I can visit by car . |