Example sentences of "with my [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wearing a flak jacket with bulging pockets and over my shoulder was carrying a bag with my long lens in it — it could have been a bazooka since no-one searched it . |
| 2 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
| 3 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 4 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 5 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 6 | Two : I am the founder of the Hochhauser Season , with my dear Franz of course , and am responsible for seeing that all continues well . |
| 7 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 8 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 9 | ‘ Life is n't a race , ’ he stated , ‘ and because it is not a race I do n't consider myself in competition with my fellow actors for awards or recognition . ’ |
| 10 | Is there any fish I could keep with my Red-tail Catfish in his 8′ × 4′ × 4′ tank that he would not eat as he grows ? |
| 11 | In accordance with my usual run of luck , I climbed up into thick mist , and being too lazy and smug to take a bearing I followed what seemed to be a well-worn path heading in the right direction for Beinn Dorain . |
| 12 | Hopeless to try and impress you with my slender collection of classical music . |
| 13 | The four visits that I paid to Rhodesia in 1971 with my small team of senior officials were regarded as furnishing sufficient firm ground to found serious negotiations towards a settlement . |
| 14 | Yes : here was the Bus Station , and there was Vern sitting beside me with my ham-and-tomato sandwich in his pocket . |
| 15 | I just have to agree with my Better Half on this one — he loves Poetry you know — why , his whole study in the Manse is absolutely chockabloc-jampacked with Poetry Books . |
| 16 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 17 | I never had a TV set until I bought one with my first lot of royalties and the only way we got the record player was because my dad won about £40 on the pools . |
| 18 | I 've done the Chopin Second Sonata and Four Ballades again ( hopefully , I play them better now ) , also Prokofiev 's Eighth Sonata , though that is coupled with my first recordings of the Third and Seventh Sonatas . |
| 19 | I found it hard to balance out these activities with my other commitments to the GLC Women 's Committee . |
| 20 | Erm and he started coming to this centre he he came to the centre once or twice with my other brother for some advice I think , welfare right advice . |
| 21 | With my new label of ‘ blind ’ came the object which was to stigmatize me more , a shiny new , long white cane . |
| 22 | I prepared myself for immersion , with my new book of instructions at hand , and then went down the steps of the mikva into the water , with my mother and friend and the attendant watching me . |
| 23 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 24 | I 'm stuck in some bloody conference with my only contact with the outside world being a terminal . |
| 25 | I was driving her crazy with my impotent rage at your absence . ’ |
| 26 | However , many passages have been updated , or changed to reflect modern thinking , in accordance with my greater experience of a wider range of model types . |
| 27 | I 'm 15 years old and I 've been with my current boyfriend for quite a while . |
| 28 | I 've been with my current boyfriend for four years and we have a daughter . |
| 29 | An alternative date has yet to be set , but it is understood that the band are expected to reschedule the show for the end of November , following the band 's prestigious co-headline show with My Bloody Valentine at Tokyo 's 14,000 capacity Budokan arena . |
| 30 | Where 's Thierry with my bloody cup of tea ? |