Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 2 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 3 | ‘ After my recent adventures it 's not really surprising , is it ? ’ |
| 4 | I enjoy working as part of a team , and after four years looking after my two sons I am eager to return to working outside home . |
| 5 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 6 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 7 | In one of my first jobs I plastered on the make-up and wore very executive-type suits . |
| 8 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 9 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 10 | one of my best animals I … |
| 11 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 12 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 13 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |
| 14 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 15 | If it fits in with my running plans I 'll do it , but not just to win a Vet Championship . |
| 16 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 17 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 18 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
| 19 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
| 20 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 21 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
| 22 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 23 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 24 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 25 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 26 | Dressed in my new clothes I went to Miss Havisham 's house , where her cousin opened the gate to me again . |
| 27 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 28 | ‘ In my worst moments I thought everyone knew , except me . ’ |
| 29 | I will never return to Treasure Island , but in my worst dreams I still hear the sharp , high scream of Captain Flint the parrot : ‘ Pieces of eight ! |
| 30 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |