Example sentences of "[v-ing] my [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 2 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 3 | He 's got to go to those trustees and let them know I 'm capable of handling my own money . ’ |
| 4 | Got cooking my own story about the Hillsborough Disaster . |
| 5 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 6 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 7 | Finally , after reading Practical PC I am attracted by the idea of building my own computer . |
| 8 | ‘ — weaving my own bed linen and keeping bees and putting up preserves . ’ |
| 9 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 10 | I was sat there minding my own business , when all of a sudden that side door opened and sunlight comes flooding in under my ass . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 12 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 14 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 15 | ‘ One day minding my own business in London ; the next , Damian Flint 's new secretary ! ’ |
| 16 | working away not minding my own business |
| 17 | His main purpose in all his studies became , as he says , that of ‘ informing and reforming my own Soul ’ . |
| 18 | I 'm opening my own business so I need a lot of money |
| 19 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 20 | From an enemy I am becoming my own friend . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 'm glad to finally be establishing my own identity . ’ |
| 22 | Luckily I turned out to be reasonably fluent and uninhibited when expressing my own thoughts and feelings . |
| 23 | While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon . |
| 24 | In my letter to Eliot , enclosing my own article , I had expressed the hope that , in contrast to Rowse , who told me that he considered my letter ‘ ineffective ’ , might approve of it . |
| 25 | In embarking on this section of my reminiscences , I need to stress once more that I am not writing my own memoirs . |
| 26 | I cried my eyes out for a night then started writing my own songs . |
| 27 | I stopped writing my own poems . |
| 28 | To hell with saving my own life and my own property . ’ |
| 29 | " I am nineteen years old , I am capable of forming my own opinions , making my own decisions . |
| 30 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |