Example sentences of "in my [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 wrote in my apartment at the Hotel España in Salamanca , just before I
2 It was an intriguing prospect and I was all the more curious why I had found one of his handbills in my chamber at the Golden Turk .
3 ‘ Well , Monsieur , before I met you in St Paul 's , I found one of your handbills in my chamber at the Golden Turk .
4 There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time .
5 I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman .
6 When I looked back I realized it was because of a hurt from when I was younger-I had protruding teeth and was the only child in my school at the time to wear braces .
7 I was told in my training at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that Patrick Manson , one of the school 's founders , was unsuccessfully sued by a Chinaman for loss of living when he worked in Amoy , China .
8 ‘ It 's so much more congenial to meet here than in my office at the radio . ’
9 It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome .
10 If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving .
11 six is my number , then numbers five , one , three , three another double number , I 've got erm , in my car at the moment its three , 'C' , 'G' ,
12 Because the cafés were so noisy and crowded , we had started working on our poems in my room at the Colegio .
13 I sit in my room at the top of the house with my swabs and solvents , my brushes and pigments .
14 I drank too much in my break at the adjacent Queen 's Hotel and would sometimes share a pint with the night porter on my way home at four in the morning .
15 There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money .
16 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
17 How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ?
18 I do n't think that elegance is the main thing in my mind at the moment .
19 The next morning I had to give in my notice at the bank — first to the manager at Fontanellato and then , in person , to my boss in Parma .
20 The only occasion when rail closures were raised in my time at the Transport Department was in the spring of 1981 .
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