Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] my [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel reasonably relaxed if I am interviewed on my own ground , but find TV stations rather stressful and alien situations . |
| 2 | Teachers ' responses to this checklist are compared with my own , and the text voted most popular of all , ( The Machine Gunners , by Robert Westall ) , is examined in further detail . |
| 3 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 4 | I have been dragged into my own book against my will . |
| 5 | The generalizations which follow are derived from my own experience in one particular sector of British society during the era 1910 to 1980 . |
| 6 | ‘ Tuesday : After rehearsals I drive home to be fed by my own loving mother , down South for the duration . |
| 7 | A personal example can be drawn from my own observational study of doctor-patient consultations ( Strong 1979a ) . |
| 8 | The occasion is famous , the protagonists are distinguished ; Scipio Aemilianus crying over burning Carthage , Polybius suitably present and ready to elicit the right answer : turning round to me at once and grasping my hand , Scipio said : " A glorious moment , Polybius , but I have a dread foreboding that some day the same doom will be pronounced upon my own country " " ( 38.21.1 , transl . |
| 9 | Mason Colley has been … approaching me these six weeks , and now I 'm settled in my own mind , I ca n't think you 'll stand in the way ? ’ |
| 10 | quite a substantial , er amount of money which has got to be financed from my own funds on that . |
| 11 | of it er but I 'd rather be viewed on my own merits on my own worth er be willing to take a few risks in life erm and know that I 've got the rewards at the end of it for making a success . |
| 12 | I did not want to be left on my own . |
| 13 | She had a weak chest and needed a lot of attention , whereas I was robust and could be left to my own devices . |
| 14 | I 'd still like to be left to my own company . ’ |
| 15 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
| 16 | On the days when I am left to my own devices I am a bit of a disgrace really . |
| 17 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 19 | We 're on holiday and I 'm being left on my own . |
| 20 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 21 | A brief outline of the history is given in my own paper ( Currie , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | The reason why is summarised in my own ‘ Principle of inverse irreversibility ’ , a sub-paradigm of my ‘ Law of innate tendencies ’ , itself one of the laws that go to make up the all-encompassing ‘ Law of irrelevant correlates ’ , as explained in my work-in-progress , ‘ Irrelevant correlates ( and others ) ’ , which promises to be hailed on publication as the definitive analysis of systematised muddleheadedness . |
| 23 | The enterprise is run by my former TV presenter rival , Jeremy Carrad . |
| 24 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 25 | ‘ That bit was not autobiographical , but a lot of the rest was based upon my own experiences , ’ Webb stated . |
| 26 | ‘ I was caged by my own power , ’ he said in his soft , malevolent voice . |
| 27 | I was left on my own , with no help from anyone . |
| 28 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 29 | When I was left on my own after the death of Uncle , my beasts became my family , I suppose . |
| 30 | I was left to my own devices . |