Example sentences of "[prep] my dear [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought about my dear wife , and for a short time I felt better . |
| 2 | He listened so politely that I perhaps talked a little too much about my dear country . |
| 3 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 4 | I prayed a little and wept for my dear father , and for myself , my unhappy passion . |
| 5 | ‘ It began after my dear Tom had passed away and when Silas and this woman spoke of becoming engaged . |
| 6 | A fleeting recollection , as the dying are supposed to relive past episodes : recollection of my old sane ordered life now lost by two centuries , of my dear wife , my valued friends , even some of my esteemed enemies , and of my little grandchildren . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , the envoys of my dear wife , ’ he announced thickly . |
| 8 | I was busy and happy all that time , relying greatly on the help and encouragement of my dear friend Miss Temple . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the funeral of my dear friend , Lauengram , ’ he said , in answer to our question . |
| 10 | I had to listen patiently , while he was giving his extraordinary opinions of my dear country . |
| 11 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 12 | Her writings contain references to members of her family : one , from 1739 , is addressed to John and Eliza Bunce on the death of their young daughter ; another , among those published in her Poems in 1740 , is entitled ‘ On the Death of My Dear Brother , Late of University College , Oxford ’ . |
| 13 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't know what a pleasure it is to me , Pip , ’ he said once , ‘ to be with my dear boy , in the open air . ’ |
| 15 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 16 | Two : I am the founder of the Hochhauser Season , with my dear Franz of course , and am responsible for seeing that all continues well . |
| 17 | ‘ What walks with my dear wife and little ones ! |
| 18 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 19 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 20 | And I said — for I was permitted to answer — that I had no desire for marriage , but wished to live unwed and happy with my dear brother and no other . |
| 21 | I only heard of what we will call " the-carving-of-mahogany-to-fit-the-cami-knickers " years and years later from my dear friend Bruin Boyce . |
| 22 | I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was , and no one I wished to speak to . |
| 23 | And so , two months later , although I was very sad to leave , I said goodbye to my dear master and his family , and rowed away from the land of the Houys . |
| 24 | I returned to our room and lay on the bed next to my dear wife . |
| 25 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 26 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 27 | May He grant more peace of mind to my dear husband ! ’ |
| 28 | JC : Whether he overestimated my capabilities or not , I 'm pleased to have sung Gloriana , and enjoyed later performances conducted by my dear friend Reggie on the Covent Garden tour and during a visit to Rhodesia [ Zimbabwe ] for the Rhodes Festival in 1953 . |