Example sentences of "my [num ord] birthday " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the month before my thirty-third birthday , and I was offered the appointment . |
| 2 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 3 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |
| 4 | Dorothy Bohannon , Henry Avenue , Bowburn , Durham : It was my 17th birthday . |
| 5 | I suppose it is a bit crass to say the one with me on it — on my 45th birthday , I think — but that 's the one alright . |
| 6 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
| 7 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
| 8 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday — you 've always been around at the most important moments in my life , Harry . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , I had my fourteenth birthday here . |
| 11 | So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund . |
| 12 | It was my fourteenth birthday . |
| 13 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |
| 14 | Three days after my sixteenth birthday , in August 1944 , Butler 's Education Act received the royal assent . |
| 15 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 16 | Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby . |
| 17 | Ten days ago , I spent my 33rd birthday flat on my back , contemplating the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death ( yup , it was a happy , happy day ) and wondering what my underlings would do to this column in my absence . |
| 18 | It was my 85th birthday recently and out of the blue , a letter arrived from my daughter containing tickets for a four-day trip to Paris , passes for Euro Disney , and tickets for a cruise down the Seine . |
| 19 | I told Eliot of my new post , but when I next heard from him , in a letter dated 31 January 1939 , the day after my twenty-sixth birthday , it was with a slight hint of reproach . |
| 20 | This was on my 34th birthday last March . |
| 21 | I was clothed in black from head to toe six weeks after my eighteenth birthday . |
| 22 | ‘ I only had my eighteenth birthday last week . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My eighteenth birthday . |
| 24 | ‘ She give it to me on my eighteenth birthday . ’ |
| 25 | I registered just after my eighteenth birthday and had my medical almost at once . |
| 26 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 27 | And erm =ut er th that that was quite a quite a good school , quite a modern school but I I 'd er I 'd er I was n't able to stay there long because I was approaching my thirteenth birthday you see than . |
| 28 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 29 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 30 | When I reached my 19th birthday , I received several nice presents from Mum , Carl , Etty and Jerry . |