Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 3 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 4 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 5 | I found it in my old snap album . |
| 6 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 7 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 8 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 9 | ‘ You just barged in here , grabbed hold of one of my letters , then locked me in my own sitting-room . |
| 10 | ‘ I loved him in my own way . |
| 11 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 12 | So I put him in my tropical set up along with my Gouramis , Mollies , Guppies and Plecs . |
| 13 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |