Example sentences of "in my [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will I know anyone in my former life whom I know in my present one ? |
| 2 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 3 | In my latter days at school , this old hall became the gym , and we had a new , much larger hall with room for chairs . |
| 4 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 5 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 6 | The Fat Controller entered the caravan casually , his eyes darting about taking in my few effects , our scattered clothes , the pile of economics books on the little table . |
| 7 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 8 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 9 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
| 10 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
| 11 | Dying in my own story . |
| 12 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 13 | Fear , real fear , is something I had only experienced once in my life , and that , strangely enough , was not on the round-the-world race , but in my own little boat , and in my own waters off Blakeney . |
| 14 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 15 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 16 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 17 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
| 18 | I mean in my own village we have erm |
| 19 | There are virtually no traffic wardens , school patrols are entirely haphazard activities , and in many parts of the county rural policing has disappeared — it is non-existent in many parts , especially in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire , West and in my own constituency . |
| 20 | I have spent quite long enough outlining the picture in my own constituency and I have no doubt that the House will wish to consider the national picture as well . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I am proud to be the Minister who changed the rules and delighted to be able to benefit schools in my own constituency . |
| 22 | ‘ People said I was too old in 1985 , but I had confidence in my own ability , ’ he said . |
| 23 | People said I was too old in 1985 , but I had confidence in my own ability . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've still got belief in myself and I still have confidence in my own ability . ’ |
| 25 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I was always pretty confident and never lacked belief in my own ability , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Despite my wealth of experience and my time as an instructor , I had become over confident in my own ability . |
| 28 | He was intensely serious about the place of art in life , and I can remember painting a picture in the main art room at Berkhamstead , one I was to sell years later in Manchester , and the way in which he valued this gave me a sense of value in my own achievement . |
| 29 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 30 | ‘ Always wrapped up in my own concerns . |