Example sentences of "[prep] my [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . |
2 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . ’ |
3 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
4 | I 'm afraid I started to think about my own skin at that point . |
5 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
6 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
7 | One evening , I sat in a cantina with a row of bottles on the bar , and tried to remember absurdly small things about my own life . |
8 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
9 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
10 | The sight of another person 's suffering and sacrifice stopped me thinking so much about my own problems . |
11 | When I was approached to become a member of the group interested in ‘ the teaching of practical skills in biology ’ , I was only too pleased to become involved as I had been concerned , for some time , about my own teaching skills and strategies used in the classroom situation . |
12 | Thank you for your generous remarks about my own work . |
13 | I ought to know that about my own wife . |
14 | I am the ultimate source of meaning of all " existential facts " ; all such facts , in the final analysis , turn out to be explicable in terms of facts about my own existence . |
15 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
16 | I want , as Milton says in those pathetic closing lines of his Epic , ‘ a place of rest ’ … 1 am too doubtful about my own writing to think of making an effort towards completing another volume . |
17 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
18 | RECENT reports and letters about bank charges make it important to restate the General Consumer Council 's views and to put the record straight about my own comments . |
19 | I was far from sure about my own appearance . |
20 | By this time I had released both canoe and paddle as I was much more concerned about my own safety than anything else . |
21 | I was wanted in Formula 1 , then I was n't , so I went about my own business , creating my own new future , then all of a sudden I 'm wanted again . |
22 | ‘ There I was , merrily going about my own business , when I suddenly disappeared in a puff of metaphysics . |
23 | Like so many journalists , I am very Opinionated , hopefully in private only — even about my own profession , journalism If we are to be seen as an independent , unbiased and creditable observer , should we really be in the political arena with our trade union the NUJ ? |
24 | I take a deep breath , ‘ I said I could probably write a story about my own death . ’ |
25 | I care about my own body . |
26 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
27 | It was n't Katrina who next appeared , it was a slight woman of about my own age , Kathleen . |
28 | When he wrote The Childhood at the age of thirty-five , Thomas associated this sudden interest in poetry with a sex-stirred liking for a ‘ tall thin freckled girl of about my own age with good rather large features , dark hair and grey eyes , and an austere expression ’ . |
29 | I often see people who look about my own age working in shops or making appointments at the optician 's even sitting at desks in estate agency showrooms . |
30 | I was sat next to an Army wife of about my own age . |