Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 32 | In the year which ended with my twenty-first birthday , I had made twenty-nine parachute jumps , been arrested , spent a month on bail , been in hospital twice , stabbed in the face once , and spent over two thirds of my days with the Territorials . |
| 33 | I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’ |
| 34 | Will somebody tell me : if the Chicago-based Harmony company mass-produced ten million guitars since 1945 ( as they claim ) , were the guitars so bad that people threw them in the bin like you did with my last letter and lovely photograph ? |
| 35 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 36 | When it came to my fortieth birthday she said , what would you like for your birthday ? |
| 37 | It seemed like my last day had come . |
| 38 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’ |