Example sentences of "[subord] my [adj] friends " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends . |
| 2 | Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty . |
| 3 | For the past year or so , all hon. Members except my hon. Friends on the Front Bench have sung from the same hymn book about decommissioning . |
| 4 | Well , yes , I did know ; it was because my Russian friends would be there . |
| 5 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |
| 6 | He is , as my Irish friends would say ‘ a broth of a boy ’ . |
| 7 | There is no truth that er ministers intend to withdraw from the I L O or to seek an opportunity to do so and despite T U C criticism , as I said earlier , we believe that our policies comply with all the I L O conventions which we 've ratified and as my honourable friends have pointed out , our overriding objective is to ensure the maintenance of continuous operations at G C H Q which is vital to the protection of national security . |
| 8 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 9 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 10 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 11 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 12 | As my hon. Friends have said , that is absolute rubbish . |
| 13 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 14 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 15 | Tragically , as my hon. Friends have said , the image that is portrayed is still one of the smoker being chic or macho . |
| 16 | As my hon. Friends have said , the original calculations were made by the Inland Revenue and had nothing to do with the borough of Newham . |
| 17 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |