Example sentences of "[noun sg] in my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became an exile in my own land . ’ |
| 2 | I decided it was safe to go to my bedroom in my new body and take a look at myself in the mirror there . |
| 3 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 4 | Sitting in the compartment in my dark city suit , working away at the bright knitting caused a lot of second glances from passers-by , but usually ensured I kept the compartment to myself . |
| 5 | I crouched down , trying to ease the spasms of fear in my own body . |
| 6 | I feel tension in my left hand , my left cheek , and a pain beneath my shoulder-blade . |
| 7 | I am a stranger in my own home . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 9 | I had a very interesting talk in my French oral about |
| 10 | Fig. 1 shows this fabric knitted from the basic punchcard design used as an example of basic slip stitch in my last article . |
| 11 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 12 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |
| 13 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
| 14 | It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair . |
| 15 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 16 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 17 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 18 | ‘ I needed a pain-killing injection in my right elbow and then the abductor muscle in my groin went . |
| 19 | Even at this moment , I see that in your gaze which finds an echo in my own heart ! ’ |
| 20 | It is very important at this time to make a quick drawing in my small sketchbook , as ideas are just as easily lost as they are found . |
| 21 | Sure , I was standing here with a hole the size of an elephant 's nose guard in my four-set clause . |
| 22 | — Guy Pearson , Surrey I LAUGHED at this property ad in my local paper : ‘ Two bedrooms , off-street park-ing , 5-piece bathroom suite , no chain ! ’ — |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I pulled the hamstring in my left leg as I picked the ball up to score a try . |
| 24 | I remembered the face at the window in my first week on the island . |
| 25 | And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter , about expensively dressed girls . |
| 26 | The most extraordinary performer in my own garden at the moment is not a leaf but a seed pod , actually 18 seed pods , belonging to the shrub Decaisnea fargesii . |
| 27 | If I have a choice between working for a nice man who let's me get on with my work in my own way and as far as possible on my own initiative and a difficult woman , then I 'm not going to hesitate , am I ? ’ |
| 28 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 29 | In this industry as , no doubt , in the rest of the manufacturing sector in my hon. Friend 's constituency , my hon. Friend has continued to work assiduously for his constituents . |
| 30 | There was a misunderstanding in my hon. Friend 's question . |