Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was doing my usual Tuesday clean for you , Chris , when the phone rang . |
| 2 | I replaced the sealed beam units in my 1971 IIA with halogen quad optic lamps . |
| 3 | Rigid drums , a sparky synth backdrop , a My Bloody Val interlude , and that plaintive call for Albert-Finney-grim-up-North-'60s-kitchen-sink character Charlie Bubbles . |
| 4 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 5 | Influenced by such acts as My Bloody Valentine and Ride , the group have lined up some impressive gigs for the spring , including Hammersmith Palais and the University of Surrey . |
| 6 | I 'd probably say The Byrds ' ‘ Younger Than Yesterday ’ ; Neil Young , ‘ Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere ’ ; the first Buzzcocks album ; the first Diodes album ; Throbbing Gristle , ‘ DOA : The Third & Final Report ’ ; My Bloody Valentine , ‘ Loveless ’ ; probably ‘ Doolittle ’ by the Pixies . |
| 7 | Kevin Shields ( of My Bloody Valentine ) would definitely be there . |
| 8 | They spent their adolescence hanging out together , fostering unhealthy obsessions for spotty pop bands and painstakingly creating fanzines called Clouds Have Groovy Faces which were crammed with Parma violets and articles on My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream . |
| 9 | You can forget those laughable , knee-jerk comparisons to My Bloody Valentine , for starters . |
| 10 | The four fresh-faced Dubliners scream and screech their way through a sprawling four-song set , suggesting a messy amalgam of My Bloody Valentine ( guitarist Jim , it turns out , is Kevin Shield 's younger brother ) and Sonic Youth . |
| 11 | Much has been made of the ‘ feminine shape ’ of My Bloody Valentine 's music , and this also extends to the ‘ wombadelia ’ of Spiritualized and the neutered fumblings of the shoe-gazers and much of the second division of indie rock . |
| 12 | My Bloody Valentine and Blur got stranded at the airport , but thankfully CURVE and SPIRITUALIZED were on hand to step in … |
| 13 | You 'd dearly love to claim them as one of ours , the latest American band to owe an unpayable debt to Brit-rock 's influence — in this case My Bloody Valentine and what that yanks dozily call ‘ Dream Pop ’ — but that would be too simple . |
| 14 | Their two previous EPs and by now infamous live shows have gathered rave reviews everywhere and earned them comparisons with Ride , My Bloody Valentine and other artists of that ilk . |
| 15 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |
| 16 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |
| 17 | ‘ I still expect to have a substantial interest in the day-to-day running of the club and my assistant Lil Fuccillo will be appointed manager . ’ |
| 18 | I realised things might not be the same nowadays so , ten days before the conference , my assistant Joanne and I went down to Covent Garden ( which is now at Nine Elms ) and had a trial run . |
| 19 | My assistant Joanne Barker was talking on her phone and two more colleagues were in the back seat on their phones . |
| 20 | Now if each of these engines for the dock can lift 1,200 pounds , and they can , Thomas , I 've checked with my assistant Murdoch five times … then they are not machines at all . ’ |
| 21 | My assistant Penny is also going . ’ |
| 22 | I explained my hopeless Parlty. position if there were any resignations . |
| 23 | Apart from My Private Idaho which er I thought that might have been |
| 24 | As you can see from my enclosed XTree , DIR AND CHKDSK/F printouts , there 's a significant difference in free space which is not dynamic , that is , the figure remains reasonably constant whether the disk space is reduced or increased above its current size by adding/deleting files . |
| 25 | ‘ My dear Shannon , for someone so pitifully characterless , you really have had the most fascinating life . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ My dear Martha — ’ ’ said Gabriel . |
| 27 | ‘ My dear Martha , ’ said the locksmith , ‘ how can you say such things , when you know you do n't mean them ? |
| 28 | ‘ Elementary my dear Colin . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ My dear Laura , ’ he drawled smoothly , looking down at her flushed cheeks , the blue eyes glinting with indignation , and her full lips trembling with rage and fury . |
| 30 | ‘ I can assure you , my dear Laura , that I have neither the inclination nor the energy to lay my hands on your fair body , ’ he drawled sardonically . |