Example sentences of "[verb] in my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take care ’ I said , impotently , making plans to try and grab Steve should he fall in my general direction . |
| 2 | becoming in my thick maturity |
| 3 | ‘ When I 'm writing , everything that 's happening in my normal life becomes useful for the book . |
| 4 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 5 | Language experts are said to have challenged the conclusions of four top scientists — reported in my Daily Mirror column — that a key confession was false . |
| 6 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 7 | Dying in my own story . |
| 8 | I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me . |
| 9 | So here I am , installed in my new office , beginning another day 's work . |
| 10 | I HAVE recently had an electric card meter installed in my one bedroom flat , as I prefer to pay as I use knowing how unwelcome bills can be . |
| 11 | Ironically , because having shown me what he termed ‘ retroscendence ’ , The Fat Controller was content to let me stew in my own juice for a while . |
| 12 | As I mentioned in my recent phone call the best site for it is the Mill Yard , as last year . |
| 13 | ‘ As I mentioned in my annual report statement , 1992 was a watershed year . |
| 14 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 15 | Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace . |
| 16 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 17 | Back home safely , I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine . |
| 18 | An interesting additional observation was to find in my front-room data nonce nonsense formations , such as thingummycallit , and several idiosyncratic items , such as gobsocket and jiminycricket . |
| 19 | I 've got a filing cabinet that 's sat in my little corner which is empty , just a big tin box that 's got little keys , I mean , but it 's not ideally situated at the moment . |
| 20 | I promised in my five minute address last year that I would be a listener and I 've already listened to many of your views over the last twelve months and indeed today . |
| 21 | I had not intended to intrude on my hon. Friend 's speech , but does he consider that a schoolteacher , whose salary is fixed through national wage agreements by the independent pay review body for teachers and who lives in my hon. Friend 's or my constituency in the south-east , is better able to afford the council tax on a higher band than a teacher who lives in Darlington or elsewhere in the north ? |
| 22 | The rent cheque was , to my surprise , a few pounds short of the amount I was actually paying — certain deductions had been made for lighting and other odd things that were technically included in my monthly rent . |
| 23 | Full details will be included in my departmental report , which will be published in February . |
| 24 | As we approach the end of the diet and exercise programme , it is important to decide at this stage how you intend to proceed afterwards.If you have a significant amount of weight to lose you have the choice of continuing on the diet menus as included in the daily plans or you can follow the diet contained in my Complete Hip and Thigh Diet . |
| 25 | The ‘ funny ’ Hearnes were all related , a fact which is clarified in my forthcoming book on the family which I hope will be published in autumn 1993 and will also dispel several other myths about this numerous band of cricketers . |
| 26 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 27 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 28 | The headings I used in my inaugural speech last year were … |
| 29 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 30 | The implication of sex differences in economic activity for economic inequality are among the questions that are being pursued in my current research with John Ermisch and other colleagues . |