Example sentences of "my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the month before my thirty-third birthday , and I was offered the appointment . |
| 2 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 3 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |
| 4 | Dorothy Bohannon , Henry Avenue , Bowburn , Durham : It was my 17th birthday . |
| 5 | I suppose it is a bit crass to say the one with me on it — on my 45th birthday , I think — but that 's the one alright . |
| 6 | ‘ Harry is my eighty-ninth baby , ’ Miss Maynard went on , proudly . |
| 7 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
| 8 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
| 9 | As this was my hundredth phone call , I got some publicity in the local press and the dog was found . |
| 10 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday — you 've always been around at the most important moments in my life , Harry . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , I had my fourteenth birthday here . |
| 15 | So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund . |
| 16 | It was my fourteenth birthday . |
| 17 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |
| 18 | Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that . |
| 19 | Three days after my sixteenth birthday , in August 1944 , Butler 's Education Act received the royal assent . |
| 20 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 21 | Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby . |
| 22 | Although some people join the ranks of the old with relish and gloat over the advancing years ( 'I 'm in my 80th year' — i.e. 79 ) , others have commented on the incongruous feeling the idea of being old creates within them . |
| 23 | My tuppenth . |
| 24 | Ten days ago , I spent my 33rd birthday flat on my back , contemplating the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death ( yup , it was a happy , happy day ) and wondering what my underlings would do to this column in my absence . |
| 25 | And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity . |
| 26 | And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity . |
| 27 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 28 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 29 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
| 30 | I had my first dog for 18 months and have had my second one for 3½ years . ’ |