Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 2 | He began to whistle now , accompanying it with a little shuffle of his feet which brought a wide grin from Joe ; then becoming serious for a moment , he said , ‘ You knew , I do appreciate Martin getting leave to come home for my twenty-first . |
| 3 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 4 | Ignominiously , I was hustled out after my second question clutching my scrap of question paper . |
| 5 | I registered just after my eighteenth birthday and had my medical almost at once . |
| 6 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 7 | ‘ True , ’ she acknowledged , ‘ and I 'm looking forward to my first experience of Formula One . ’ |
| 8 | I was up there , I was looking forward to my first ten thousand , I went from there to there , to fucking |
| 9 | ‘ Ah 'm sure lookin' forward to my first pisco sour . ’ |
| 10 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
| 11 | And that was where at the age of sixteen , I turned up for my first job interview . |
| 12 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 13 | Even today I still look forward to my first glimpse of it , after a huge bend in the road , through the gate in its enclosing wall . |
| 14 | Armed with your support I look forward to my first year in that position , to sorting the Party 's problems . |
| 15 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 16 | Let's move on to my next guest . |
| 17 | ‘ She was born just before my 40th birthday which was quite rare 13 years ago . |
| 18 | And so it was then , that on a cold , Tuesday October evening I set off for my first match … |
| 19 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 20 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The reason for that is linked up with my second one . |
| 22 | I went up for my first term at York called Nigel and I came back as Oliver . |
| 23 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
| 24 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 25 | ‘ The set-up was not quite right and I just could not go quicker on my second flying run whatever I did . |
| 26 | I went there during my first summer vacation from Oxford , working my passage in a tramp steamer bound for the Black Sea . |
| 27 | Carrying on from my last article let's look at the Harmonic Minor modes . |
| 28 | To get somewhere for my caddying I felt I had to travel , and I left home for my first tournament in 1951 at St Andrews for the Amateur Championship . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards , he went off to the Demob Centre and I left dismally on my last posting to Scampton . |
| 30 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |