Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] my [det] " in BNC.
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1 | This is so much my own trouble that I did n't want my husband 's name to come into it . |
2 | I know exactly the sort of person I want to marry , someone with a mind like G.P. 's , only much nearer my own age , and with the looks I like . |
3 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
4 | In the wrong hands — maybe even my own — it is potentially deadly . |
5 | Quite independently my former colleague Gilbert Kelling had come to the conclusion that certain sediments in the stratigraphical record can be best interpreted in terms of violent storms . |
6 | Since then I 've been very much my own man . |
7 | What I do — and who I do it with — is very much my own business . ’ |