Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also very rude about my new hairstyle I 'll have you know Jane , but this guy |
| 2 | In his reply of 21 February 1935 , he added a footnote in his own hand which put the matter aptly ; but about my second article he had his doubts . |
| 3 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 4 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 5 | Not that I know all that many people anyway , I suppose ; Jamie is my only real friend , though through him I have met a few people of about my own age I regard as acquaintances . |
| 6 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 7 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 8 | During my own life I have experienced many occasions when debt burdens have dominated my thoughts . |
| 9 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 10 | When I walk through my front door I hear the TV playing loud . |
| 11 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 12 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 13 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 14 | For if I should wish to love you and no other except for my wedded husband I shall not fail to tell you . " ) |
| 15 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 16 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 17 | And then for my main course I tend to choose |
| 18 | For my next example I will go back to Sri Lanka for a case which exhibits with particular clarity the general principle that equality of status calls for direct equivalence in reciprocal behaviour . |
| 19 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 20 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 21 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 22 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 23 | Mr Hay , whose company made a small profit last year , added : ‘ For my own business I think I can see faint signs of recovery . |
| 24 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 25 | Because I 'm already vulnerable enough where you 're concerned and for my own sake I have to hold on to some degree of control . |
| 26 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 27 | ‘ After my recent adventures it 's not really surprising , is it ? ’ |
| 28 | I enjoy working as part of a team , and after four years looking after my two sons I am eager to return to working outside home . |
| 29 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 30 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |