Example sentences of "[verb] of my [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 2 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 3 | ‘ I came of my own will , ’ said Harry abruptly . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm staying of my own free will to allow your mother to stay . |
| 5 | There was quite a social calendar to keep me occupied if I ever tired of my own company . |
| 6 | It came to me that my mother was proud of her friendship with this high-spirited outcast , and I felt resentment as I thought of my own upbringing , of the fuss when my school reports were n't all that my mother would have wished , of the scene when once I had sworn . |
| 7 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 8 | I was not ill , but nearly died of my own neglect , I believe the medical profession and the National Health Service share some of the blame . |
| 9 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 10 | I finger the necklace often these days as I think of my many friends in that country . |
| 11 | ‘ When I think of my former sister-in-law agreeing to marry him , it makes me feel ill , positively ill . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think of my own daughter . |
| 13 | Therefore with generosity ( I give myself ) and gentleness ( I kiss the beast ) and no-shame ( I do what I do of my own free will ) and forgiveness ( he ca n't help himself ) . |
| 14 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 15 | But I left of my own free will . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 17 | I was thinking of my own reputation … |