Example sentences of "[adv] my [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I have made very clear my anti-Fascist convictions . |
2 | ‘ I expect he cursed me when he cursed Pat , only I was so healthy the effect was delayed , or perhaps my rotten paintings were the effect , and I only see it now . |
3 | Perhaps my basic thoughts were externalized by reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky , and realizing that I had a basic Napoleonic complex . |
4 | ( These are only my personal feelings and I would n't want to put anybody else down for the way they dress . ) |
5 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
6 | I had packed my case in a state of some excitement , taking only my best clothes with me . |
7 | Only my slippered footsteps on the stairs , the tiles . |
8 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
9 | So my two boys and I took it prisoner . ’ |
10 | So my two days are the tenth |
11 | I was amazed that someone should have such big ambitions for a group like ours , but the ideas were getting through and soon my own expectations increased . |
12 | Somehow my two feet had different ideas about direction . |
13 | Erm I have to say that that these are largely my personal views of the member of the regional office , rather than obviously the Secretary of State at this stage in the proceedings . |
14 | There was just my two suitcases and my travelling bag . |
15 | I felt stupid with just my old clothes with my name ‘ Hummingbird ’ on . |
16 | Not for just my own children but for my own health . |
17 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | A man can choose to call any woman dear unless she is directly in authority over him ( thus my male students do not call me dear , though every other male on the planet may do so ) . |
20 | Thus my twelve eggs have inversive symmetry . |
21 | It 's amazing how quickly my few possessions become disarranged . |
22 | In the future , if ever my old feelings about Mr Rochester began to return , I would only have to glance at the two pictures to see the great difference between us , and in this way common sense would destroy my foolish dreams . |
23 | She wrote that without the challenge of some who were Christians of a particular persuasion , " I would not have been aware of how deeply my own assumptions had constructed the fantasy that I had desired " ( Kathy Raban in Hammond et al. |
24 | A week later my worst fears were confirmed . |
25 | it opens the door , it opens the door , that 's why both my younger girls , I mean Diane 's a different policy any way cos she wants to be a , but with the other two , who worked interest in computers and when they left college I gave them crash course in , in typing not in shorthand because they do n't they do n't need shorthand nowadays , |
26 | I went home to York , but my father and mother were dead , and also my two brothers . |
27 | In a statement on Austrian television he said : " After weighing the interests of our republic , the experiences of the past years , and also my personal plans for the future , I have decided not to offer my candidacy for re-election . " |
28 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
29 | Rose , Birmingham Region and I make it very clear on the onset that our Region is having a free vote on this because we have n't had the opportunity to discuss the document and therefore what I 'm saying is purely my own views . |
30 | At least , I thought , their eyes would have looked on that same pond , the pond which now my own eyes saw . |