The phrase "of my using" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward or unclear.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to the act of using something in a possessive manner, but it is generally better to rephrase for clarity.
Example: "The consequences of my using the software without proper training were significant."
Alternatives: "of my usage" or "of my employing".
My friend M. — you'll understand in a moment why she's terrified of my using her name — had to make a searing decision a year ago.
"As much as some have made of my using the phrase 'I love it,' it was simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob's gesture," Trump, Jr., said in his statement.
And it was only when I was in a treatment centre, and somebody asked me to look at the truth of my using, and I started to get beyond that 'Oh no, it's really cool man.
And then towards the middle and end of my using it was the loneliest thing I've ever had in my life, paying to be in pain, to sit on my own in a room and be paranoid.' Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, Danniella was cast as Sam Mitchell in EastEnders.
Since characters are insensitive to the speaker's mental states, there is no possibility of my using the term 'I' to refer to George W. Bush.
Although the preservationist can allow that memory generates justification when it also generates a new belief (recall the example of my using my event memory of the ice on my driveway to form the new belief that the ice on my driveway was of uniform thickness), she'll insist that when memory acts only to preserve belief, it is not an epistemically generative process.
But in recent months, I've started buying most of my used CD's over the Web.
In his essay on my recent book, Denby's primary criticism is of my use of the term "collaboration".
There was perhaps some misinterpretation of my use of the word 'apolitical' … The festival will attempt to provide a literary platform for all shades of opinion".
Zoe Williams' review this week ended by saying that, because of my use of language, the show would be better on radio.
"My positive test was the result of my use of a substance I should not have used," Cabrera said in a statement released by the union.
