Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] my [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the serious and much publicised problem of badger baiting and digging , much of which occurs in my own county , and sett stopping , there is the appalling road-kill statistic of some 47,500 badgers a year . |
| 2 | Kindly do n't presume to issue me orders in my own house . ’ |
| 3 | As I undo the hooks , I catch a fingernail and it dangles from my own by a thin string of adhesive . |
| 4 | More than half a dozen British Press awards as ‘ Sports Writer of the Year ’ , and four Sports Council tributes embracing both ‘ Best Sports Feature Writer ’ and ‘ Best Overall Sports Writer ’ have gone to McIlvanney , yet he glumly agrees with my own feeling that we still have a distance to go before achieving respectability . |
| 5 | When I 'm hooked into a corset , it actually interferes with my own enjoyment . |
| 6 | I quote him at length , not only because he has drawn attention to a hitherto neglected type of Earth Mysteries site , but because his experience so entirely accords with my own . |
| 7 | It appears from my own and other research at present that in some schemes young people are used as cheap substitutes for regular workers and in others the content of the ‘ training ’ is very limited — leading to jobs otherwise classified as un- or semi-skilled ( Davies , 1986 . |
| 8 | It appears from my own research that while , overall , boys are seen to be less conformist , teachers prefer their type of classroom resistance to that of the girls . |
| 9 | I use Porter paints on my own house and I try to convince other people to buy them . ’ |
| 10 | This coincides with my own wishes . |
| 11 | Possibly the time slips in my own day were already dying out . |
| 12 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |