Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly for my health I never go to the bank with the takings any more . |
| 2 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 3 | right in into my wrist . |
| 4 | I drove slowly down to my office . |
| 5 | At which point everyone would crack up with laughter and I 'd slide slowly down in my chair with embarrassment . |
| 6 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 7 | I 've never been treated so badly in my life . |
| 8 | So much for my afternoon 's painting . |
| 9 | So much for my observation from abroad . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll find your brain works much better on my kind of diet . ’ |
| 11 | You know , so personally for my area of work I just wanted them to think they were getting someone respectable . |
| 12 | I think they found it surprising , after all the trouble we 've gone to promote this loving relationship , that you 've strayed so long from my side . ’ |
| 13 | But to go back to my earlier question — why so long in my case ? |
| 14 | ‘ And me only halfway through my book . |
| 15 | ‘ Under the power of melting grief ’ , immediately after her death he wrote , ‘ my dear wife did look for good in me , and more help in me than she found , especially lately in my weakness and decay . |
| 16 | Thank you very much for your cards which arrived all together just before my birthday on the 15th. it was nice to see the pictures of the priory & of Durham Cathedral — the buildings around here look very flimsy and new in comparison ! |
| 17 | And especially not to my aunt . ’ |
| 18 | Only not in my hotel . " |
| 19 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 20 | My hair is only just past my shoulder and I 'd love to have it down to my waist . |
| 21 | I 've only once in my life written a fan letter to a film star . |
| 22 | And I wish with this high seating position that the rear view mirror was n't so directly in my line of sight . |
| 23 | I thank my right hon. Friend for responding so promptly to my request that either his good self or my hon. Friend the Minister for Corporate Affairs should visit Nottingham . |
| 24 | I must not forget the back-up staff and the community staff who visited me so promptly after my return home . |
| 25 | I am not amused to see him so close to my sister . ’ |
| 26 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 27 | It was something that was more or less always on my mind . |
| 28 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
| 29 | I 've never been able to think so clearly in my life before . |
| 30 | Without him , I do n't think I would have got so far in my career . |