Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight 's , eight 's about my highest I 've got . |
| 2 | You need n't worry about my visiting you again either . |
| 3 | Finally , I shall turn to a religious position such as my own which is not Christian , though religious and within the western tradition , in which the present is normative and the past is only drawn upon in so far as that seems to be appropriate . |
| 4 | He described one woman who kept saying , ‘ I ca n't wait for my second one to leave home , ’ but was actually denying the sadness she felt . |
| 5 | I got it for my eighteenth you see . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , that accounts for my knowing nothing about you . |
| 7 | After my last one . |
| 8 | After my old one . |
| 9 | Daphne not only welcomed me with open arms but to my surprise expressed delight at the thought of my occupying one of her spare rooms . |
| 10 | I wonder if something like that would help me win back the hand of my loved one ? … probably not ) . |
| 11 | But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends . |
| 12 | But I also discover both reactions of my own which are in their power , and reactions of theirs which are in mine , so that the drive towards sovereignty urges me , either to dominate , or to let myself be drawn to the viewpoint of the stronger and submit . |
| 13 | Some work of my own which uses the telephone and takes advantage of recent advances in discourse analysis will be presented , and the idea of a communicative support system will be put forward as a possible explanation of the findings obtained . |
| 14 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 15 | I think I will be a very unconventional mother , and having two daughters of my own I am appalled by the cost that this is going to erm |
| 16 | a room of my own I think it was , it |
| 17 | After the horror stories about the dogs I hesitate to go near my first one , but with us they are just big balls of fur . |
| 18 | They would n't , the miners hardly got anything and there used to be soup kitchens for us and er when it first started in nineteen twenty six and er I was pregnant with my second one and I used to walk right down to Pit with a lace , great big lace basket , they would n't let the men fetch the coal and we had to push the coal from there right to the , oh they 've no idea love , no idea . |
| 19 | ‘ The reason for that is linked up with my second one . |
| 20 | Sitting on the sofa with my loved one , browsing through the TV pages of the paper , I said innocently , ‘ A Room With A View 's on tonight . |
| 21 | and I , if I get onto my last one I might order one but I 've got |
| 22 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 23 | But Mother must have known how precious dollies were to me and set about making me a black one taking the pattern from my old one , which I called Cuddles . |
| 24 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 25 | Keeping my private life from my public one can be tricky . |
| 26 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 27 | Will I know anyone in my former life whom I know in my present one ? |
| 28 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 29 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
| 30 | Why I 'm very positive about this I am a rheumatoid arthritis person , have been since I oh I do n't know happen to be in my fifties I think . |