Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the problem was that I was only in my twenties when I did it , and therefore still quite young in their eyes . |
| 2 | But I did use and re-invent the world of the Barracks I grew up in , yet the point is that I was in my 20s when I wrote that book and it was viewed through the persona of a dying woman . |
| 3 | I was in my forties when I met him — call it middle-aged madness if you like — but he was so kind and thoughtful . |
| 4 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 5 | These included the BBC 's Your Witness , a courtroom-style debate in which the producer 's assistant was a toothy young lady by the name of Esther Rantzen , and two interviews with Prince Philip , once on my own when he came to Edinburgh as Chancellor of the University , the other in Newcastle for Tyne-Tees ' Face the Press . |
| 6 | How many times have you heard people say , I 'm really at my best when I 'm challenged . |
| 7 | I cut my other life off real life off and become that person and I 'm at my happiest when I 'm submerged in another character doing it . |