Example sentences of "was my " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my natural character , you think , evident from birth … |
| 2 | Meanwhile The Counterlife attributes to Henry the verdict that ‘ exploiting and distorting family secrets was my brother 's livelihood ’ . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | It was my painting . |
| 5 | But no more interesting was my Picture Painted by a Genius of 1954 , no more interesting my Replica of a Diploma Submitted in Lieu of an Original Composition for the Award of a Degree . |
| 6 | It was my leg all right , but somehow detached from me . |
| 7 | It was my sister . |
| 8 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 9 | Anyway , more importantly , this was my last chance to escape . |
| 10 | I remember the shock of realizing that this was my last ever second-year class , then my last ever third-year class , and then people started asking me about my leaving party . |
| 11 | Looking back , that square was my gateway to the real world — and the gate could only work one way . |
| 12 | In fact , such was my dread of returning home , I nearly managed to miss my plane , but somehow the clockwork motor inside me brought me back in one piece . |
| 13 | In any event , the biggest problem for us all was my own state of depression . |
| 14 | What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom . |
| 15 | One immediate result of my departure from Berkeley was my giving up my flat by the school and going back to London . |
| 16 | It was my desire to be active , to earn my way in life , which encouraged me into these new fields , that is it was a positive impulse which drove me on . |
| 17 | This time it was my landlady 's turn to drop a bomb . |
| 18 | ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you . |
| 19 | This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone . |
| 20 | ‘ Lisa was my best friend until she and Andy started going out together — we even shared a flat together at one stage . |
| 21 | That night was my last one in my broom cupboard . |
| 22 | My grandfather was born at Farrochil , on Bolfracks Hill — we would still be there — but was my father to slave at carting stones from the Menzies 's quarry for old Wade to build his damned bridge ? |
| 23 | It was my offering . |
| 24 | This time , business was my purpose . |
| 25 | The stance consisted of a couple of sprouting pegs but little else ; Mick 's home while it was my turn to try to link unlikely sequences of free and aided moves up the next 40 metres . |
| 26 | And when the perpetrator was my own nephew , it could n't have hit any harder . |
| 27 | My best feature was my big , black eyes ; I could really melt hearts . |
| 28 | This was my chance and I grabbed it . |
| 29 | On one occasion , lashing about for reasons after the event , Raskolnikov cries out ‘ I simply wanted to dare , Sonya , that was my only motive ’ ; and next to ‘ I just did it ’ this must be reckoned his least untrue account of himself and his deed . |
| 30 | I would go out of my way to crunch on crisp , mustardy jellyfish ; an oily , tissuey-textured sea-slug , slipped into a congee of boiled rice , was my idea of a hearty breakfast ; and the pig , from the brains to the balls ( of the feet ) seemed like a gourmet 's theme-park . |