Example sentences of "to my [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my utter horror I was put on Fry House , which was the house for pregnant women at that time . |
| 2 | ‘ To my two sons I am still just the old crow . |
| 3 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 4 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 5 | To my absolute horror I found that all my controls were completely frozen , I was quite certain I had seen the ground crew go round and remove all the external locks before I had climbed aboard . |
| 6 | But as she administered to my addled wits I felt a surge of rebellion . |
| 7 | But I just say to my honourable friend I do n't think er compulsion er is the route with that we should follow . |
| 8 | To my everlasting surprise I stayed in the main presenter 's chair — even though the programme 's title changed . |
| 9 | This was a very tense time and to my complete amazement I took 2nd place in the amateur class . |
| 10 | I th stick to my former line I think that we 've all had a look at this , er we , I believe it 's a useful , serviceable instrument and I rest my case . |
| 11 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 12 | To my great annoyance I found myself jealous . |
| 13 | Left to my own devices I think I might have shrugged my shoulders and accepted it . |
| 14 | On the days when I am left to my own devices I am a bit of a disgrace really . |
| 15 | When I was finally allowed up and I went back to my own home I expected to forget you . |
| 16 | When I think back to my own childhood I remember only long sun-struck afternoons , the smell of dust under avenues of eucalyptus , the quiet rustle of water in roadside furrows , the lulling of doves . |
| 17 | A little to my own amazement I found myself happy for them . |
| 18 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 19 | It points out advantages to my divorced state I had n't thought of before . ’ |
| 20 | Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me . |
| 21 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 22 | ‘ To my little children I am a shadow also . |
| 23 | If anything were to happen to my old dosey I 'm afraid I 'd live out my days in peace . ’ |