Example sentences of "[vb past] at my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’ |
| 3 | He was the largest Mbuna I had ever owned , a wild-caught fish measuring a good six inches and one of a ‘ pair ’ which arrived at my local shop from the first importation of the species into the UK . |
| 4 | I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat . |
| 5 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |
| 6 | The corner of her mouth pressed against mine and in concert with her sharp hand , which clutched at my ample buttock , her sharper tongue slid ever so slightly between my lips . |
| 7 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 8 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 9 | The soldier looked at my swollen hand and then back at my face . |
| 10 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 11 | Ellen smiled at my enthusiastic description . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , my excitement was aroused and , when Benjamin left the cardinal 's chamber , he glared at my flushed face suspiciously . |