Example sentences of "[noun] that i [verb] my " in BNC.

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1 One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement .
2 Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company .
3 We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently .
4 ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him .
5 It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time .
6 It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa .
7 But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like .
8 Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September .
9 It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor .
10 I started — and still do — in a field that I call my Chagall field because Chagall once painted one exactly like it .
11 It was also in May that I started my new programme of intensive stretching exercises and aerobics .
12 ‘ In the same battle that I lost my leg , old Pew lost his sight .
13 Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first …
14 And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own .
15 It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me !
16 But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry :
17 It is with sadness that I begin my statement this year by referring to the loss of an inspirational founder member of RIBA Companies Ltd .
18 It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder .
19 It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’
20 You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his .
21 cos there 's a little coffee table sort of thing that I put my script on
22 It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully .
23 I rang my friends at Radio Leicester and Peter Crankshaw , the producer of the ‘ phone-in programme Cross Talk said ‘ Yes ’ to my suggestion that I mention my exhibition .
24 It is therefore not only with a sense of excitement that I approach my new responsibilities , but also with a keen awareness of the importance of IT to industry , to the service sector , to research and to the strength and wellbeing of the UK as a whole .
25 It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there .
26 They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office .
27 It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 .
28 It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’
29 I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill .
30 There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name .
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