Example sentences of "in my [adj] [noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
2 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
3 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
4 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
5 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
6 | Dressed in my new clothes I went to Miss Havisham 's house , where her cousin opened the gate to me again . |
7 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
8 | ‘ In my worst moments I thought everyone knew , except me . ’ |
9 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
10 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
11 | In my last comments I mentioned how everyone can influence our performance in the Division . |