Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved away , and I put on my strained smile again for the next patiently waiting customer . |
| 2 | writes from , : MY eight-year-old grand-daughter Jennifer is learning a song at dancing school , The Black Bottom . |
| 3 | ‘ My eight-year-old brother is really jealous and wanted to know why he could n't come . |
| 4 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 5 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 6 | Well , my flatmate Cherry drinks like a fish , but then , so do I. |
| 7 | My hesitant companion said , ‘ May I drink to your health without necessarily wishing to listen to your conversation ? |
| 8 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 9 | Two hundred dollars in American Express traveller 's cheques missing , their numbers in my stolen bag . |
| 10 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 11 | If all else fails this usually works and thus my eye fell upon my indoor tank , beneath the window , and currently occupied by six Uaru amphiacanthoides . |
| 12 | His thumb and forefinger pinched the sides of my neck , one big pad pressing into my carotid artery . |
| 13 | We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals . |
| 14 | This thought , that the given cause of the wine 's being cool is not in or of itself a means , is reinforced by the truth , among others , that the given cause is precisely not a means to my idiosyncratic drinking companion , who likes his Haut Poitou uncooled . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : [ sitting ] Well , my strange dear , what is your question ? |
| 16 | ‘ Our relationship can be measured in hours , my strange beauty . |
| 17 | The driver noticed my strange appearance and could not help laughing . |
| 18 | The servants smiled when they saw my strange appearance . |
| 19 | The servants smiled when they saw my strange appearance . |
| 20 | There 's a file of that , of course , but I make it up from my working diary , and nobody will know if I make some extracts from the diary . " |
| 21 | My research post had been extended by my working part time , but in 1986 funding ran out . |
| 22 | The north-east was no place to refine one 's art , but the money was good ( if you could prise it from the agent ) and it widened my working circle ( if you survived . ) |
| 23 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
| 24 | Because Kingman was deemed unsatisfactory , my Working Group was chosen carefully by Mr Baker , with the assistance of Mrs Angela Rumbold , Minister of State at the DES , to reflect a more conservative stance to the teaching of English . |
| 25 | When I first met my Working Group I was astonished to discover that they were far more progressive in outlook than the members of the Kingman Committee . |
| 26 | The only linguist on my Working Group , Professor Michael Stubbs ( Professor of Education at the University of London Institute of Education ) , proved more radical than Professor Brown in his ideas about the teaching of language , and was deeply concerned about the problems of British ethnic communities and of multi-cultural education . |
| 27 | My Working Group was small , only nine in number , including myself . |
| 28 | My Working Group co-operated very well together , and we enjoyed our weekly meetings . |
| 29 | Throughout our discussions my Working Group was very anxious to compose chapters which would make clear our rationale to teachers and politicians of good will . |
| 30 | To my surprise my Working Group insisted after a lively debate that we kept the weighting at 33⅓ per cent for 14 year olds . |