Example sentences of "in my [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that in my present state I could n't face Moscow , and having discovered about the hot , spring baths of Budapest and the chess players who stand in water at 76 degrees Celsius , leisurely moving the pieces , decided that it was the place for me . |
| 2 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So in my perfect republic it would be simple . |
| 4 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 5 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |
| 6 | I would I 'd like to be a dance teacher when I grow up and in my spare time I would do I would like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 7 | In my spare in my spare time I 'd like to be , like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 8 | In my suggested scheme it would certainly include Elizabethan and Jacobean poetic drama . |
| 9 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 10 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 11 | In my last job I used to look after the animals in a large zoo near the practice , where I was an assistant . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 14 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 15 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 16 | In my own case I can experience psychological feelings very similar to physical pregnancy — a vague unease , heaviness , discomfort , and a kind of dark brooding . |
| 17 | Generalizing from these reflections that began in my own subjectivity I may ask ‘ objective ’ questions about the origin of my self-awareness , of my structure , and that of others . |
| 18 | In my own mind I ca n't separate his death from his father 's . ’ |
| 19 | Once I 'm absolutely clear in my own mind I 'll put my plan to you — but here 's the encampment and unless I 'm mistaken that 's Boz coming out to meet us . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In my next column I will deal with the chromatic approach notes . |
| 22 | In my next life I shall be a Jew or a Spaniard or an Eskimo or just a fully committed anarchist like everybody else , Alexis decided . |