Example sentences of "in my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone who stands nearly five feet eleven in my bare size 7½ feet , I have suffered a cruel life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And it 's in my overall pocket , I know it is . |
| 4 | Very , very briefly indeed erm I would stand by what I said in my overall speech . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He has been a guiding beacon in my professional life and a touchstone of human integrity . |
| 16 | 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 ? " |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In my professional view , cos if the new settlement has to be in is ch is i has to be within the greenbelt then it 's better to go for peripheral development rather than have a new settlement in the first place . |
| 20 | My review was an objective appraisal of a book which , in my professional opinion , had several serious shortcomings and errors , many of which , incidentally , I blamed on the publisher . |
| 21 | Just as well : this fresh humiliation and the subsequent return with tail between my legs would be the final nail in my professional coffin . |
| 22 | Mediating devices include phrases like , " as I have shown above " , " so far I have tried to argue that " , " it may be helpful here to distinguish between " , " in this section " , " in my introductory paragraph " , etc . |
| 23 | I thought I had that in my introductory letter , the one that says we 're a small company making recordings , we 're currently collecting recordings of erm sort of English as used in everyday situations and we would like to record on your premises if we may . |
| 24 | Back home there 's a guy who works in my nearest off-licence : he 's got a conk like a haemorrhaged strawberry . |
| 25 | So it is , say I in my simplistic fashion , that the plain , screaming absurdity of the statement that trade-union action causes a general rise in wages and prices escapes scrutiny . |
| 26 | Flakes of snow settled on the muzzle of my rifle , and smoking a cigarette while wearing leather gloves left a gingery smell of burnt , nicotined hide in my gloved palm . |
| 27 | ( in my classic response to Rejection and Pain ) |
| 28 | er him , do n't shout in my bloody ear hole , cor does he shout |
| 29 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
| 30 | I 'm in my thirteenth season of senior rugby , I thoroughly enjoy every moment and I would not with to play for any other club than Watsonians . |