Example sentences of "of my [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 2 | His father said in a statement : ‘ I have no personal knowledge of this incident from my adult son of my former marriage . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When I think of my former sister-in-law agreeing to marry him , it makes me feel ill , positively ill . ’ |
| 4 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 5 | However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self . |
| 6 | No , what blew against my ankles like tumbleweed that afternoon was not the crinkle of Mumm NV but the discarded skin of my former being , my beetle carapace , my sloughed and umber appurtenances . |
| 7 | For example if you go back to say Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and one of my former bosses was a godchild of Queen Mary and I mean he simply said to me talking not long ago about one of the nobody i people did n't behave like that at court so they 've really asked for everything they 've got . |
| 8 | ‘ Very well , ’ answered the wife , ‘ and it always reminds me of my former Croydon neighbour , Pam Hook , who also taught Medau . ’ |
| 9 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 10 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 11 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 12 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 13 | One of my former patients — an antique dealer from Chesterfield in Derbyshire — was regressed as part of his therapeutic treatment . |
| 14 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |
| 15 | This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble . |
| 16 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 17 | However , one of my many visitors saw it and told Barry Cockcroft , the gentleman who produced and directed my film for Yorkshire Television . |
| 18 | It 's one of my many talents . ’ |
| 19 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 20 | I finger the necklace often these days as I think of my many friends in that country . |
| 21 | Eleven forty-five , and I strolled into the Jack the Ripper , the roughest and least local of my many locals . |
| 22 | Then we er got a letter from ah my daughters , one of my daughters one of my many daughters married to a coastguard in Milford . |
| 23 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 24 | There 's always the chance they 'll query the validity of my own licence — ’ He tapped the steel forearm and gloved hand resting on his lap . |
| 25 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 26 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 27 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 30 | I was fond of her , she reminded me of my own kid back home . |