Example sentences of "my [noun pl] [conj] i [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 2 | I feel a lot better though about my exams since I 've started revising |
| 3 | She 's made me more responsible and I 've done better in my exams and I 've worked at my English . |
| 4 | It 's a small , firm lump and seems to slip from my fingers when I try to feel it . |
| 5 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 6 | It is the very same thing erm could I say that two people have written to me , two of my constituents and I do agree that that they have a point . |
| 7 | I may seek to control him , if he is potentially useful to me ; but I shall be betraying my principles if I begin to enjoy the sensation of another resisting and yielding , if I develop a taste for power for its own sake . |
| 8 | My predecessors and I have enjoyed a close and fruitful working relationship with local authorities in Wales over many years and I believe that that has contributed significantly to the efficient and effective conduct of business between central and local government which is the key to the debate . |
| 9 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 10 | Erm you 'll see sir in my submissions that I 've proposed a rewording of criterion three so that the Greater York new settlement should be located as close to the outer boundary of the as of the York greenbelt as is consistent with greenbelt policy . |
| 11 | I 'll bring my matches when I like take the dog in I 'll nip upstairs and say I 've got ta get something and I 'll just grab my matches out of there in case he 's lost them or something ! |
| 12 | ‘ My friends and I have decided you ca n't stay here any longer . |
| 13 | One of the battles my friends and I have had since coming to Rhodesia has been to stay out of the little box into which some people would like to pop us . |
| 14 | I also enclose a copy of a letter raising observations on their replies to my Enquiries and I await hearing from them on these points . |
| 15 | His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room . |
| 16 | I 'm going to wash my hands cos I 've got glue on me . |
| 17 | Well there 's a pair of four , right , let me , let my ones that I 've got . |
| 18 | Only gradually did my colleagues and I come to realise that we were reporting on a social phenomenon — an aberration triggered by fear of being left behind in a pay race , aggravated by mounting greed and , finally , sustained by sheer bolshieness . |
| 19 | So great is the slaughter that there has been enormous public concern and since 1978 my colleagues and I have studied the effect of road casualties on the toads that breed in the lake at Llandrindod Wells , in mid-Wales . |
| 20 | But recently my colleagues and I have developed another theory which I think has more interesting implications . |
| 21 | Rebutting suggestions that Scottish Liberal Democrat MPs would baulk at losing the opportunity for a Scottish Assembly , he added : ‘ My colleagues and I have taken this decision jointly and collectively . |
| 22 | My colleagues and I have discussed it , and we propose to recommend that its terms be accepted . |