Example sentences of "that i [verb] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 3 | The monitoring process , until eventually I work out that I get my two sales . |
| 4 | It was there that I made my one and only good find , not of course taking into account the brass washout pipe plate . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 7 | It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence . |
| 8 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 9 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 10 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |
| 11 | It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself . |
| 12 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me . |
| 15 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 16 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 17 | I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip . |
| 18 | Safety pundits will be pleased to note that I received my just desserts that evening , on unpacking my rucksack and discovering that the action had mashed a forgotten egg sandwich into my hat . |
| 19 | It was also in May that I started my new programme of intensive stretching exercises and aerobics . |
| 20 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 21 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 22 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 23 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 24 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |
| 25 | She changed my entire perspective of the infection and it is to her , I believe , that I owe my current good health . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | That I maintained my usual composure was to me a miracle , and once more we were on our way to the frontier . |
| 28 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When I finally accepted that I create my own reality , I was excited but scared . |