Example sentences of "in my [adj] [noun] " 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 | As someone who stands nearly five feet eleven in my bare size 7½ feet , I have suffered a cruel life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |
| 8 | And it 's in my overall pocket , I know it is . |
| 9 | Very , very briefly indeed erm I would stand by what I said in my overall speech . |
| 10 | I left the house at quarter to seven in my working boots with my pieces in my pocket . |
| 11 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
| 12 | In my Working Group 's recommendations for the teaching of literature we tried to balance the arguments for national unity with the need for a curriculum which respected the present cultural diversity of our society ( the same desire for unity and diversity underpins our recommendations on Standard English and dialects ) . |
| 13 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 18 | All round us was a crowd of misty dream-people — though I 'm in the crowd , too — milling and muttering , and they 're looking at me in my silken gown and murmuring to each other , ‘ Is n't it dreadful — Robina 's dead ! |
| 19 | I embarrassed him terribly — in my loudest voice — in front of all the people working on the reception desk , and a separate room was very quickly found for me . |
| 20 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 21 | Nowhere so far in my limited knowledge of the pair has evidence of shorthand materialised — ; although at law he may have had some awareness of the skill . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was no good telling him that I had seen five prolapsed uteri in pigs in my limited experience and had failed in every case . |
| 24 | My own attempt to do so is spelled out in The Extended Phenotype , the book that , more than anything else I have achieved in my professional life , is my pride and joy . |
| 25 | He has been a guiding beacon in my professional life and a touchstone of human integrity . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | In my professional work , I repeatedly have conversations with educated clients — especially male clients — which go something like this : " Yes , yes — you 've told me what you think , and what you did , but I wonder how you felt ? " |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Let me make clear that when I say the conference of 1923 , and that night in particular , constituted a turning point in my professional development , I am speaking very much in terms of my own more humble standards . |