Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight 's , eight 's about my highest I 've got . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | a room of my own I think it was , it |
| 4 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To my left I saw the long purple curtains twitch in the window and for a moment I thought it was her just making sure I 'd gone . |
| 9 | When I glance to my left I see why . |
| 10 | Although er er physically on my right I I think their policies , in so far as I glean they have any , er are most definitely far from the right . |
| 11 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
| 12 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 13 | You know I was completely on my own I , I 'd got to make my own decisions . |
| 14 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 15 | After one day on my own I am put back on trainee status . |
| 16 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 17 | The first day I could walk on my own I walked out . |
| 18 | And the thing is with my kids , if I was in the car on my own I could imagine chatting away |
| 19 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 20 | you know , but I 'm there on my own I can pot do my hair , do what I wan na do go up the stairs , have a bath , you know , just do what I , drop my clothes where I wan na drop them and everything . |
| 21 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 22 | Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom . |
| 23 | That 's why when I , when I go round the video shop on my own I usually go Jordans . |
| 24 | Cos I do n't like going in there on my own I feel intimidated . |
| 25 | I 'm really , really bored so I just thought seeing as I 'm on my own I 'd just tell you some slang erm for teenage languages . |