Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 2 | My conflicting thoughts argued with each other from pavement to pavement . |
| 3 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 4 | My finishing-school clothes list : One pair plimsolls , one pair best silk stockings , one Liberty bodice , amen , we give Thee most humble and hearty thanks , we Thine unworthy servants . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm off upstairs to change into my working clothes . |
| 6 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
| 7 | I left the house at quarter to seven in my working boots with my pieces in my pocket . |
| 8 | My Spanish players must have a strong , physical approach . ’ |
| 9 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 10 | However , almost all my political connections were on the Left and my Labour friends , acquired relatively late in life ( apart from George Wigg , most of them after I was forty years of age ) , were a source of delight and novelty to me . |
| 11 | For this reason , the Colonel pointed out , he could not ‘ consistent with my wounded feelings support his Lordship 's friend at the late General Election … ’ |
| 12 | When I moved , it settled in the hollow made by my drawn-up knees . |
| 13 | From somewhere in the capital , by our intrepid reporter : The dog dirt injected into my pulsing thighs by a beautiful buck-naked half-robot half-Samoan woman was finally starting to take effect . |
| 14 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 15 | My usual clothes |
| 16 | My professional friends , British , Europeans and Americans , who know the Middle East , have been most supportive , many are even apologetic . |
| 17 | ‘ A vacancy having occurred in the medical department of the Infirmary at Bedford in consequence of the resignation of Dr. Yates ( sic ) I have been induced to turn my professional views towards that place . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage , ’ Rowland confesses . |
| 19 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage . |
| 20 | At that time Dr. Yeats indicated to Samuel Whitbread that he intended , after having considered the matter for about a year , to ‘ transplant myself to the metropolis and … quit the early scenes of my professional exertions after 15 years in Bedford ’ . |
| 21 | I confirm that this is the name by which I intend to be known in all my professional practices as a lawyer . |
| 22 | For many ‘ A ’ stream children there was little place on the timetable for music , dance , art , craft , poetry , the humanities — subjects which were dismissed as window-dressing by some of my professional colleagues . |
| 23 | ‘ That … ghoul out there has no right to impugn my professional abilities . ’ |
| 24 | Great TV reporters like Fyfe Robertson , Trevor Philpott and Alan Whicker were my professional heroes . |
| 25 | I was thinking I might use up all my odd scraps of wool , to make a scarf perhaps , but who would wear such a strange-looking garment ? ’ |
| 26 | In 1952 I was sent to a local convent school until I was eleven , although my adoptive parents were Protestants . |
| 27 | It was an existence conducted as if in poverty , but my adoptive parents could not actually have been poor ; still , it was ruled by insistences on not wasting , on eating everything up , on being grateful , on saving light and water . |
| 28 | That is not to say that I shall select my facts to fit my theory , I shall rather select those general impressions that I have gathered in the course of my geological wanderings . |
| 29 | As Joe and Biddy became a little more cheerful , discussing my possible plans for the future , I became more miserable . |
| 30 | For the first time in my life I found myself surrounded by friends — friends whom I found interesting , and friends who appeared to find me interesting , bright and witty , despite my all-too-evident disadvantages . |