Example sentences of "in my [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to take me walking through the ditches in my bare feet , although I was terrified of frogs and newts . |
| 2 | My feet got so hot and sweaty I took my trainers and socks off and walked along in my bare feet till I saw a traffic warden looking at me as if she 'd get me arrested . |
| 3 | When it has gone completely , I venture up a flight of stairs in my bare feet to the phone box . |
| 4 | I 'll walk all the way , and in my bare feet , too … |
| 5 | Well I know where my oh is that yours ? it 's in my overall pockets and I , I tell you what 's in the , in the thing with it , me petrol one and I had me premium punch put on there look . |
| 6 | I left the house at quarter to seven in my working boots with my pieces in my pocket . |
| 7 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , I point to an object in my immediate surroundings and say " this chair " , then , unless I am deliberately lying or trying to mislead , I indicate an implicit assumption on my part that there is something out there , something external to my act of pointing , which I take to be a chair . |
| 9 | My main misadventures on the roads came into my mind when it was time to choose a horse for happy hacking in my middle years . |
| 10 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage , ’ Rowland confesses . |
| 12 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage . |
| 13 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 14 | ‘ I no longer have any confidence in my fellow members of the board or in Andrea Doyle , ’ said Nicholas . |
| 15 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 16 | HAVING watched almost every game in the World Cup , firstly in my Irish colours , and then in my Scottish colours ( although I live in Dublin , my mother was Scottish ! ) |
| 17 | Forgive me if I omit intimate personal details included in the American list — such as whether Y-fronts will be in or out — but I have failed in my mental attempts to undress either man . |
| 18 | Inside the cabin , separated from this long-legged , tanned Californian girl who never seemed to stop smiling , I felt a tingle of pleasant , uncomfortable tightness in my close-fitting trunks . |
| 19 | The planes are heavy in my hanging skies . |
| 20 | Not in business , or in my private affairs . |
| 21 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 22 | ‘ Mandy , absolutely no more meddling in my personal affairs . |
| 23 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
| 24 | You think here it is Russia in winter , but I have been in my frozen villages ; you have no idea . |
| 25 | Fortunate indeed for the club for I rate Lawrence the best all-round manager Boro have had in my 32 years on the Ayresome Park beat . |
| 26 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 27 | In my recent researches into drawing in the United States in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the National Gallery in Washington , I discovered a large resource of minimalist works on paper by women ( whether this is due to the collector/donor 's taste or is a real reflection of the state of practice is difficult to determine . ) |
| 28 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 29 | In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts . |
| 30 | ‘ Why should you be interested in my marital plans ? ’ she asked abruptly . |