Example sentences of "in my [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 2 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ In my drunken stupor I looked at Sandy and mumbled : ‘ Fancy a wee trip on the water ’ , ’ he recalled . |
| 4 | In my hanging position I contorted to watch him , so it seemed like he was tackling a serious overhang . |
| 5 | I in my personal opinion I I do n't think it is . |
| 6 | In my personal opinion I prefer the original ending because it keeps up the style and tone of the rest of the novel and also keeps the characters the same . |
| 7 | I decided that in my present state I could n't face Moscow , and having discovered about the hot , spring baths of Budapest and the chess players who stand in water at 76 degrees Celsius , leisurely moving the pieces , decided that it was the place for me . |
| 8 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 9 | In my present job I still try to keep that going . |
| 10 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 11 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 12 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 13 | In my small way I felt that a little daylight was filtering through . |
| 14 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 15 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |
| 16 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 17 | In my spare time I was taking boat parties out from Mid Yell , and I ‘ used ’ that animal all summer , rarely failing to find it . |
| 18 | In my spare time I wrote stories , painted wonderful illustrations , and made magazines , with crossword puzzles and problem pages . |
| 19 | I would I 'd like to be a dance teacher when I grow up and in my spare time I would do I would like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 20 | In my spare in my spare time I 'd like to be , like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 21 | In my pastoral ministry I have met so many people , some of them convinced Evangelicals , who believe in justification by faith with their heads , yet are condemned by their hearts . |
| 22 | I sympathize because in my little way I grieve too , but over the people in my life I have allowed to die without ever having shown them any particular affection . |
| 23 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 24 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 25 | As I sat in my comfortable chair I had a very strange feeling . |
| 26 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 27 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 28 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 29 | In my coldwater tank I have a large Gold Oranda . |
| 30 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |