Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] my [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So in my perfect republic it would be simple . |
| 2 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 3 | He referred me to a specialist , and shortly after my twenty-first birthday I went into hospital for tests . |
| 4 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 5 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 6 | I have always got up early and even now in my 75th year I can hunt , climb mountains and cover an 8 ‘ ft ‘ by 4 ‘ ft ‘ canvas in one day . |
| 7 | A little to my own amazement I found myself happy for them . |
| 8 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 9 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
| 10 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |
| 11 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 12 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 13 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 14 | The 44-year-old Prince lamented the generation gap but joked that ‘ even at my advanced age I can make a muddle ’ . |
| 15 | And then for my main course I tend to choose |
| 16 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 17 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |