Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I warmed to my eulogy of his skills , . |
| 2 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
| 3 | Another cup of coffee is ready as I bite into my breakfast . |
| 4 | As I settle into my piece of floor , she adjusts herself and smiles at me . |
| 5 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 6 | But Miss Kenton had departed , and sure enough , as I continued with my work , an occasional footstep or some other sound would serve to remind me she was still there outside the door . |
| 7 | As I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep snow slope , I remembered Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , tailed to the edge of a very high cliff by the posse . |
| 8 | As I mention in my letter , a footway along this section it could help to avoid accidents and even save lives . |
| 9 | In the latter case , will , in general , not be equivalent to for any other morpheme in the sentence ; ( 17 ) , in the following newspaper headline : ( 17 ) Laos threatens to attack new village the referential locus of new is the E of an implied nominal attack which does not in fact appear ; it will in fact only be co-incidence if Ar is identical with the E of a morpheme expressed elsewhere in the same structure , as in ( 18 ) , the title of an English madrigal : ( 18 ) as I go to my naked bed ( We return to the notion of referential locus at several points in the remainder of our text . ) |
| 10 | We must have been closer friends than I recall , for as I go through my library 40 years later , I find quite a number of splendid books inscribed ‘ in friendship ’ from Andrew in his scrawling hand , including Henrik van Loon 's ‘ Book of Lives ’ , ‘ One Men 's Meat ’ by E.B. White , ‘ Women in Love ’ by D.H . |
| 11 | Even where contact is frequent and based upon mutual affection , that does not mean necessarily that mothers and daughters are significant sources of support for each other , as I indicated in my discussion of emotional support . |
| 12 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 13 | Lili watched me thoughtfully as I put on my skirt and blouse . |
| 14 | As I related in my Opus article , in 1979 1 indeed recorded two of those three mechanical organs , the undated organ ( Teubner ) and that of 1793 ( Veyder-Malberg ) , at their slowest speeds . |
| 15 | As I struggled with my heavy bag at Navan , a strong old man ran to help me . |
| 16 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 17 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 18 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 19 | That morning , as I lay with my teeth chattering in anticipation on the wooden floor of the supply hut , I heard five more explosions . |
| 20 | As I lay on my back and tried to visualize those brigades of white cells marching to my rescue , all I saw were those other cadavers so plentiful in our ancient cathedrals . |
| 21 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 22 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 23 | I also know he was never tired of gazing at me as I lay on my front . |
| 24 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 25 | We have owls in our garden ; they cried softly last night as I lay in my glass coffin , Snow White waiting for the fairy to wake her into feminism with a kiss . |
| 26 | Er we are confirmed in our reservations about this by the results of the regional census study as I noted in my brief commentary N Y three . |
| 27 | It came to me that my mother was proud of her friendship with this high-spirited outcast , and I felt resentment as I thought of my own upbringing , of the fuss when my school reports were n't all that my mother would have wished , of the scene when once I had sworn . |
| 28 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 29 | As I feasted on my drink I sensed the hum , the confectionery of a feminine presence . |
| 30 | I mean , as I said to my hubby later on , we did n't scrimp and scrape to send her to Hutchy Girls so she would grow up to give us grandweans saying merr , flerr and sterr . |