Example sentences of "of my [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 2 | What 's the colour of my hair when I do n't wear Brylcreem ? |
| 3 | ‘ There was no reason to tell you of my proposal until I 'd assured myself of his agreement to it . ’ |
| 4 | I have studied its history because it is the land of my birth and I feel I know it well , but only as a student , not as a patriot , not even as an exile . |
| 5 | I was unsure of my welcome when I visited the cottage the next afternoon . |
| 6 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 7 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |
| 8 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 9 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 10 | So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs . |
| 11 | I sometimes join them , if their smell is n't too gamey , and exchange the time of day during my lunch hour , just to make sure that I still have the use of my voice if I 've been feeding the archive into the computer all day . |
| 12 | I began to feel ashamed of my nosiness but I had n't intended to be nosey : I was just curious . |
| 13 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 14 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 15 | Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’ |
| 16 | I know I mean I know what I think in the back of my head but I mean I just prefer not to predict , I do n't want to say it does n't matter about thinking I know it 's a bit weird in you know . |
| 17 | She turns away to bustle domestically with mugs and kettle , pausing only to warn : ‘ Do n't try anything cute , sisters ; I do n't have eyes in the back of my head because I do n't need them . ’ |
| 18 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 19 | ‘ Gary learned to keep out of my way but I did worry that I was taking it out on him and the kids , ’ she shudders . |
| 20 | I quite often see this at work : I love helping people out of difficult situations , but I 'm also very good at pushing people out of my way if I feel that they are a threat to me . |
| 21 | Er , the first thing is I put on the top of my draught that I 'd rather the pupils were n't involved at this stage I 'd rather they were involved in the over view with form tutor . |
| 22 | Get out of my sight before I lose patience with you totally . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't believe you for a moment ; even if I did , you 're my only lead and I 'm not going to let you out of my sight until I catch up with Garry . |
| 24 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 25 | In Joffre 's own words , that night ‘ I wished more than at any time of my life that I had the gift of omnipresence . ’ |
| 26 | I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker … |
| 27 | Medau has been an important part of my life since I started attending regular classes in 1975 . |
| 28 | Saunders said : ‘ I 'm enjoying the best form of my life and I go into every game fully expecting to score . |
| 29 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 30 | ‘ I allowed William Ash to bully me most of my life because I loved him , because I thought he was my father ! |