Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meantime I keep in touch with them By Quietwriter [ IBM ] : I bash my PC keyboard gaily and send them memos , three times daily . ] |
| 2 | My PC manual says that I can add more memory in 2Mb modules . |
| 3 | So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs . |
| 4 | ‘ So you cadged a lift in my champagne truck , did you , Charles ? |
| 5 | my banking system is . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not gung-ho enough , ’ Andy tells me , refilling my whisky glass . |
| 7 | In the course of an acrid , 30-minute press conference , called at midday and starting at 3.42 , both men implied that the deal could be resurrected at some time later : ‘ I might consider selling my majority shareholding in the future , ’ said Edwards , ‘ but certainly not this season . ’ |
| 8 | The emotional trajectory of my election night was similar . |
| 9 | Mr Browne , MP for Winchester since 1979 , said he was defending the right of his constituents to decide who they wished to have as MP , and added : ‘ None of the five ex-supporters is either my election agent or holds any other official appointment within my organisation . ’ |
| 10 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 11 | If this happened , it was a piece of private enterprise and done without the agreement of my election team or myself . |
| 12 | Yeah see you see , hold on Patrick would you , erm go round Carl 's house tomorrow about eight o'clock and ask Carl if he wants to swap his for one of my freedom dragon 's la land ? |
| 13 | The problem is , they 've got this parametric EQ and when I first toured with it my guitar roadie could n't figure what was wrong , because it was cutting out and crackling . |
| 14 | And then along came an old battered AC30 , which Lance , my guitar tech , gave to me . |
| 15 | So I said to my guitar tech , ‘ Just crank the Marshall right up . |
| 16 | I said what I wanted was a pickup to make my guitar sound more like a Les Paul — really fat and not this thin , screechy shit that everyone 's got . |
| 17 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 18 | ‘ … my harness slipper and I dropped ten thousand feet hanging by one leg . |
| 19 | It wo n't be easy because of my hoarding instinct , but I shall really have to try . |
| 20 | Can you just tell , I can ask if my photocopier part 's in ? |
| 21 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 22 | Deep in my heart safe from the guards |
| 23 | I listened to my heart beating . |
| 24 | I could hear my heart tap against my ribs . |
| 25 | Wedged so tight against the bottom of the last page that I can hardly read it are four handwritten words that make my heart leap : ‘ Yours sincerely , Elizabeth Serafin' . |
| 26 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 27 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 28 | MY HEART ATTACK |
| 29 | And then I saw something which nearly made my heart stop . |
| 30 | It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises … |