Example sentences of "[prep] my [det] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I know all that many people anyway , I suppose ; Jamie is my only real friend , though through him I have met a few people of about my own age I regard as acquaintances . |
| 2 | During my own life I have experienced many occasions when debt burdens have dominated my thoughts . |
| 3 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 4 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 5 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 6 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 7 | Mr Hay , whose company made a small profit last year , added : ‘ For my own business I think I can see faint signs of recovery . |
| 8 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 9 | Because I 'm already vulnerable enough where you 're concerned and for my own sake I have to hold on to some degree of control . |
| 10 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 11 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 12 | And within or without these dancing shapes and from deep within the brighter flame of my own imagination I can escape any pressure from any source . |
| 13 | As I laboured through the rest of my own meal we turned our attention to less personally charged topics , like the latest terrorist attack in Northern Ireland and the growing tension in the Lebanon . |
| 14 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 15 | From my own collection I cherish a small bill presented by the artist George Cruikshank ( 1792–1878 ) in the form of a tiny letter which , when folded , measures only about 1 ½ ins. by 2ins. and is marked ‘ wait ’ on the outside . |
| 16 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 17 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 18 | I mean in my own village we have erm |
| 19 | In my own company we recently made a bonfire of our control systems . |
| 20 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 21 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 22 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 23 | In my own case it is by self-denial , by acting against my own inclination , that self-control is confirmed and strengthened . |
| 24 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 25 | I think when you 're a carer , caring for a disabled person , in my own case it 's child , you 're not just erm it 's not just a disabled child , you 've got a disabled family , because the whole family 's disabled because of what holds you back with this one child . |
| 26 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 27 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 28 | In my own case I can experience psychological feelings very similar to physical pregnancy — a vague unease , heaviness , discomfort , and a kind of dark brooding . |
| 29 | In my own case I know that the first link produces the last through the intermediate link , and could not produce it without . |
| 30 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |