Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have this niggling little doubt about whether I can get through a summer with you as my room-mate and have my sanity intact . ’ |
| 2 | Benjamin stared at my cloak full of the little trinkets and valuable possessions I had collected . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a tidy person , I like my whisky neat . ’ |
| 4 | I drink my whisky neat . |
| 5 | A minute later the red Jaguar slides up with my briefcase intact and the girl smiling prettily . |
| 6 | KEEP my heart healthy . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , Liebchen , you do my heart good . |
| 8 | ‘ Queen of my heart -just wait now till I — only a moment — still , lie still … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Your touching announcement awakened in my heart various emotions . |
| 10 | My heart double flips . |
| 11 | I drive along the track , my heart full . |
| 12 | I 've told my story many times . ’ |
| 13 | To get to the end of my story first , let me point to his last winter 's feat of equally Laurie O'Hara 's O55 Wimbledon cross-country record . |
| 14 | Should have been on my hair fifteen minutes |
| 15 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 16 | I was washing my hair that day , or that 's what I decided was the best excuse to tell the voting commission . |
| 17 | I did my hair first thing , so now I untie the ribbon and shake it free . |
| 18 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 19 | I saw that my face , too , was whey-coloured , my hands rough and my hair dry . |
| 20 | Trying to break through his silent mood , she said , ‘ Gloria did my hair this morning . |
| 21 | We did , I washed my hair this morning . |
| 22 | oh this awful pain coming I ca n't , move my arm and right side which is the side it hurts , and it goes all up here and it really hurt me to wash my hair , to bend over and wash my hair this morning cos she said |
| 23 | Oh god is my hair okay I 've been out in the wind you know . |
| 24 | Brix Smith certainly means to keep up the progress : ’ I 've considered dyeing my hair brown to avoid being seen as another of today 's toy blonde singers . ’ |
| 25 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 26 | After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead . |
| 27 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |
| 28 | ‘ And so , just like Don Quixote , you determined to put my windmill straight ! |
| 29 | Handwriting , I could make my handwriting neater , larger , I could try joining my handwriting have the letters joined , some people are still more comfortable printing in year seven . |
| 30 | When she corrected my accent one evening she said , " It 's all right for other people to have regional accents but not for oneself " I puzzled over this . |