Example sentences of "one [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most remarkable inch loss of all was from Mollie Slack , one of my early volunteers from Radio Nottingham . |
| 2 | ‘ One of my early thoughts was to have the base unit moulded with two skins . |
| 3 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 4 | And I tell you one of my early recollections when I went to school , I 'm going back now , was er across the way from where I lived , was a family and their name was , I remember the name although I 'd only be about nine . |
| 5 | ‘ I met them on one of my early trips out here . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Hey , cooking is one of my great loves , and naturally that means Italian . ’ |
| 7 | One of my great regrets is that in the period immediately after liberation Burmese leaders and people generally seemed more interested in the political future of Burma than in the urgent task of reconstruction . |
| 8 | Over the intervening years one of my great laments has been my inability to achieve solitude , as everywhere I can now go , so can everyone else . |
| 9 | As the president himself said later , ‘ The fight for equitable health care was one of my major efforts and one of my great disappointments . ’ |
| 10 | This has been one of my great disappointments , ’ he says . |
| 11 | There was Lord Weymouth ( without shoes , of course ) John Berkeley , of Berkeley Castle , the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and Pat Smythe , one of my great sporting heroines when she took part in the Bideford Horse Show and I was the cub reporter covering the event . |
| 12 | Ps. livingstonii — was one of my great loves in my early Mbuna-keeping days , probably because my male was not only a ‘ big softy ’ who caused me no trouble whatsoever , but also because he became a great pet . |
| 13 | ‘ That is one of my great favourites . |
| 14 | as if guessing the trend of his sister 's thoughts , Aubrey said suddenly , ‘ One of my great friends , Harry Keynes , is coming over from the United States next week , Dunbar . |
| 15 | Well I used to believe that but me mum said they do n't really do that , and that was one of my great illusions completely shattered |
| 16 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 17 | One of my preferred methods of listening to CDs is to put them on and then lie back with closed eyes to concentrate on the music . |
| 18 | Well it w was n't , it were n't was n't mine , one of my nice friends was it ? |
| 19 | One of my successful young bands is Del Amitri , who are on A&M Records . |
| 20 | I 've had one of my famous hunches , an ’ I 'm gon na follow it up . |
| 21 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 22 | " But one of my lasting memories of this match will be the spirit in which it was held . |
| 23 | I came back to the flat with one of my regular clients who I had planned to meet . |
| 24 | " Are you — he tried to speak as a real writer would one of my regular readers ? " |
| 25 | ‘ It 's rather difficult you not being one of my regular patients , but since your daughter is , I 'm stretching a point . |
| 26 | Is it not clear that one of my right hon. Friend 's most important achievements at Maastricht was to get a clear definition of subsidiarity written into the treaty as a bulwark against creeping competence by the Commission and other Community institutions ? |
| 27 | One of my civil servants solemnly objected , arguing that such advertisements could present a potential safety risk . |
| 28 | At the outset of my investigation one of my civil servants said to me : ‘ My test of the review is whether you do anything about the Death Grant . ’ |
| 29 | As the president himself said later , ‘ The fight for equitable health care was one of my major efforts and one of my great disappointments . ’ |
| 30 | Birds have never been one of my major interests , I need hardly say . |