Example sentences of "[adv] of my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | spoken with unbecoming censure respecting the works of cotemporary architects , and somewhat boastfully of my own design for the building under consideration . |
| 2 | The Kachins of North Burma , among whom I carried out much of my own fieldwork , were much inclined to rhetoric . |
| 3 | I had for too long been conscious only of my own concerns , but now I became aware that those around me were troubled and at odds . |
| 4 | ‘ I have talked only of my own concerns . |
| 5 | But once we had arrived , and I was on my way to Miss Havisham 's house , I thought only of my bright future . |
| 6 | The achievement was not entirely of my own making . |
| 7 | I think regretfully of my own fireplace ; I have not had the chimney-sweep around ; it ca n't be used . |
| 8 | They remind me a little of my two Shih Tzus . |
| 9 | In this project I have invested considerable time and not a little of my own money . |
| 10 | In this project I have invested considerable time and not a little of my own money . |
| 11 | I know I should not allow one of my dearest friends to discover so late on of my romantic attachment … . |
| 12 | During one of his first trips abroad , to Prague , he ended up in a hotel like this and ‘ thought desperately of my own town on the shores of the Mediterranean , of the summer evenings that I love so much , so gentle in the green light and full of young and beautiful women ’ . |
| 13 | I was given a day off of my annual leave to think it over . |
| 14 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 15 | Throughout the whole period of study , I kept detailed field-notes , not only of factual occurrences , but also of my subjective reactions to what was going on around me . |
| 16 | My mother , too , was a science teacher and I was good at science , and I always continued with that line because partly of the family background and partly of my own interests . |
| 17 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 18 | Grief fills the room up of my absent child , lies in his bed , walks up and down with me … |
| 19 | Grief fills the room up of my absent child , |
| 20 | Finally , now that glasnost has arrived , I am happy to acknowledge the collaborative assistance throughout of my Soviet friends Sergei Rozanov , Victor Surkov and Masha Barash . |
| 21 | I was shocked out of my usual circumspection . ’ |
| 22 | PAUL Malone today warned his League Cup flops : ‘ Go through the motions against Linfield and you 're out of my Irish Cup plans ! ’ |
| 23 | I climbed out of my hired morning suit , mused lingeringly on everything I 'd experienced that eventful day … and fell fast asleep . |
| 24 | And the key to maintaining the regularity and discipline would be to walk out of my front door and do a circuit around the block and back home again . |
| 25 | This was the key to the whole thing — REGULAR , RHYTHMIC BRISK WALKING OUT OF MY FRONT DOOR , AROUND THE BLOCK AND BACK AGAIN . |
| 26 | Can i now walk out of my front door safely with head held high , please ? ’ he asks . |
| 27 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 28 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 29 | And I was knocked clean out of my right wits at first . |
| 30 | Get out of my bloody shoes , Mick ! |