Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] my [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the first , he had been selflessly understanding about my own war , and we had had a very happy marriage . |
| 2 | The last thing I wanted when I was so worried about what was happening with my own daughter was to spend my sentence surrounded by pregnant women . |
| 3 | I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me . |
| 4 | Dying in my own story . |
| 5 | So I immediately assumed that this was what was happening to my own kids . |
| 6 | But the I want to make essentially er two points , one relating er to the overall boundary review and one relating er an argument relating to my own area . |
| 7 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 8 | I 'm not particularly driving on my own , normally Paddy does , but erm , |
| 9 | Sometimes it 's a bit like a dream , walking on my own down the pavement with all these car lights flashing in my lace . |
| 10 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 11 | But dying by my own hand is too good for me . |
| 12 | As you can see , it 's not easy , and sometimes it really makes one unhappy that I can not bring it out properly , since my primary audience hope ) is writing for my own people . |
| 13 | ‘ Looking after my own , that 's what I do , ’ Scamp continued as if nothing had happened . |
| 14 | In my own case it is by self-denial , by acting against my own inclination , that self-control is confirmed and strengthened . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'll be living with my own people . |
| 16 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 17 | But I am managing and am still pleased to be living in my own home . |
| 18 | Thomas 's view , he noted , was the ‘ same as is forming in my own mind ’ . |
| 19 | I think part of it has to do with recognition — I remember listening to my own grandmother 's mysterious pronouncements — and part with a renewed sense of the strangeness of it . |
| 20 | Those G Ps told me , I thought I was listening to my own speeches to be honest , from about a year or two ago . |
| 21 | I ca n't bear living on my own . ’ |
| 22 | ’ Well , perhaps I should go back to living on my own then ? ’ |
| 23 | So consequently she 's living in Bay and I 'm living on my own in up in Holyhead . |
| 24 | I am a male of 49 years living on my own in rented accommodation , I spent a year on E.T . |
| 25 | We have a few other rooms to go , er , with my family as opposed to living on my own . |
| 26 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 27 | erm enjoy living on my own , and I would n't really want to enter into another what I felt was a very oppressive relationship really erm because erm I do n't think there are very many men who do think in terms of equality within erm within erm partnerships and within relationships within marriages . |
| 28 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 29 | Using it as a NetWare 3.11 server , its performance was actually slightly worse than the RSC which lacked the bonus of local bus , according to my own multiple file read/write tests . |
| 30 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |