Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you 're — mature enough to cope with my get-up-and-go , self-interested philosophy ? ’ |
| 2 | If , at times in an ordinary reproductive life , I am moved not only to look after my own progeny but those of my sister as well , then I clearly increase my fitness above that due solely to selfish interests . |
| 3 | ‘ We all thought I was old enough to manage on my own , ’ he said laconically . |
| 4 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 5 | I had a very very hard time just to look after my ill daughter , and I was trying to get help from everybody , but er I had a tremendous help er the neighbours were very good with me , the relations , my husband 's friends at work , er and er my own sisters and my brothers and their wives and my , my mum and dad , so I had a lot of support from everybody . |
| 6 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 7 | At least perplexing to me , but that is probably to do with my own shortcomings . |
| 8 | Apart from the Cuban missile crisis , it was the first political event really to break into my late adolescent consciousness . |
| 9 | Now to return to my dusty library at the top of the ivory tower . |
| 10 | But I 'm sure you did n't come here to talk about my sartorial kinks … ’ |
| 11 | She sent me to fetch two cups , and told me then to go to my own tea . |
| 12 | That is why it does not surprise me in the least to hear from my hon. and learned Friend about the letter that he received yesterday from Mr. Beck 's erstwhile cellmate . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm off upstairs to change into my working clothes . |