Example sentences of "my [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , my merest whim sends tour managers into fits of gloom ! |
| 2 | My finest hour of the campaign came on the night the Conservatives broadcast Labour HQ 's phone number . |
| 3 | Lorne tells me it was my finest hour — and my most shameless . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , as I dab calamine on my spare tyres , I ca n't deny that this is n't my finest hour . |
| 5 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 6 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 7 | ‘ My name , where my office is , my toughest cases . |
| 8 | It 's my greatest adventure . |
| 9 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 10 | It was my greatest triumph . ’ |
| 11 | And you are now here to witness my greatest triumph . ’ |
| 12 | Back in London in Shepherds Bush the celebrations would , I knew , be under way , led by my Dad , my greatest supporter . |
| 13 | They were my greatest friends in Benedict 's , and had rooms on either side of mine . |
| 14 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 15 | For instance : ‘ My greatest achievement so far has been supervising the Brillo campaign . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 17 | When I was eyeball-to-eyeball with the humiliations of puberty , my greatest hero was skiffler Lonnie Donegan . |
| 18 | But Herbert was my greatest friend , and we used to spend most of our time with each other . |
| 19 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 20 | MY GREATEST ENEMIES are Women and the Sea . |
| 21 | I had my greatest thrill so far , working for Jack in the 1983 US Masters . |
| 22 | But my greatest thrill of all came in 1987 with the MBE investiture for services to broadcasting journalism . |
| 23 | It was my greatest race and a British record . ' |
| 24 | The bride is one of my greatest school friends . |
| 25 | In any crisis , my greatest support is a clean sheet of paper and a pencil and the telephone off the hook . |
| 26 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
| 27 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 28 | I do try to keep away from fattening foods , but my greatest weakness is chocolate cake . |
| 29 | It was there I first saw the Face To Face programmes , too , little realising John Freeman would one day become my greatest influence as an interviewer . |
| 30 | My greatest contribution to human happiness was either the decision to abolish the cartel on cross-channel ferries or , less delicately , the decision to abolish monopoly price fixing for condoms . |