Example sentences of "[conj] my favourite [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I other day I tried to work out where my favourite resorts would come in the German magazine 's top fifty . |
| 2 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 3 | Here I was all excited that my favourite magazine in the States was going to be published here in England … it would be as avant-garde and as much on the literary cutting edge as its American counterpart , but with an added British flair . |
| 4 | We visited the guide dog shop and my favourite souvenirs were the two posters of Ziggy , a German shepherd puppy , and Hamish , a yellow labrador puppy . |
| 5 | O'Toole is the Oscars ' all-time loser with seven nominations and no wins — Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) , Becket ( 1964 ) , The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ) , Goodbye , Mr Chips ( 1969 ) , The Ruling Class ( 1972 ) , The Stunt Man ( 1980 ) and My Favourite Year ( 1982 ) . |
| 6 | In spring those cliffs are alive with auks and gulls , and my favourite bird , the gannet . |
| 7 | ‘ I like to write modern pieces and my favourite authors are Fay Weldon and Slyvia Plath . |
| 8 | Dinner confirmed Sally 's blend of forward planning and sheer competence ; iced cucumber soup was followed by steak Bordelaise and my favourite pud of crème brûlée . |
| 9 | And my favourite fantasies were of walking across country after country until I reached some strange place no one had ever visited . |
| 10 | ‘ The shirt is wonderful , and my favourite lot in the sale , ’ says Carey Wallace of Christie 's . |
| 11 | Original vocalist Caron Wheeler makes a welcome return on Take Me Higher , but my favourite moments are provided by Jazzie B himself , whose pseudo-scientific raps are delivered with a London accent and all the assurance of a crackpot dictator . |
| 12 | But my favourite guitar really is my Custom Shop Fender Telecaster , with Joe Barden pickups on it . ’ |
| 13 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 14 | Boats are readily available to visitors , from various mooring bays around Harray , but my favourite venue is the Merkister Hotel , at the north-east end of the loch ; a true fishing hotel , to which anglers return , year after year ; where fishermen new to Orkney are given expert advice and endless encouragement . |
| 15 | Brigflatts can be walked to from Sedbergh following the Rawthey Way , coming back via Birks and the wonderfully named Elysian Fields , but my favourite walk to Brigflatts begins from Gawthrop and follows the edge of Middleton Fell to Holme Knott and Brigflatts Moss . |
| 16 | But my favourite Ford , and the best car for the country dwellers , is the versatile five-door Escort estate , especially the GLX 1.6 version . |
| 17 | I yield to no one in my admiration for the great Iron Duke himself , but my favourite general of the Napoleonic wars was General Kutuzov . |
| 18 | It 's not really ever one person that does my hair but my favourite salon is Constantines in Manchester . |
| 19 | ( The mali had a unique way of turning simple English words into Hindi or Urdu equivalents : the clay tubs in which he planted his flowers became fellah-i-puts , seedlings were Sid-ud-Dins , while my favourite flower — the hollyhock — became a holi-ul-haq . |
| 20 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |