Example sentences of "of my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's now somewhere in the back of my wardrobe , waiting for Oxfam . |
| 2 | This versatile long sleeved shirt has become an essential part of my wardrobe . |
| 3 | I tucked mine under my arm and she said , ‘ Are n't you gon na drink it ? ’ and I said , ‘ No , I 'll drink it when I make it ’ , and it 's still on the top of my wardrobe , waiting to be opened . |
| 4 | Thing is , I 've got my heater right in front of my wardrobe , and I 've to move it so someone 'll open my bloody wardrobe . |
| 5 | The cause of it is evident enough : such a call on my brains merely ; and of my brains , only that portion which says one and one made three , says how do you do , says I will now dine . |
| 6 | I 'VE HAD TERRIBLE TIMES in many of the world 's beauty spots : angst-ridden in Anguilla , miserable as sin in Mexico , suicidal in Sicily , bored out of my brains in Barcelona . |
| 7 | But , it , it ba it 's basically the penaltriusm idea that , for example , supposing I sacrifice my life , saving three of my siblings , okay ? |
| 8 | Now each of my siblings has fifty percent of my genes . |
| 9 | Every one of my predecessors as Social Services Secretary — Dick Crossman , Keith Joseph , Barbara Castle , David Ennals and Patrick Jenkin — had scars to show for their periods in that office . |
| 10 | I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector . |
| 11 | I am surprised that another of my predecessors — I choose my words very carefully — should show such ignorance about the small business sector . |
| 12 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 13 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 14 | This was not all : " And for the residue of my Thirdd parte of goods Remayning unbequeathed be yt moore or lesse My will and mynde ys that it shall remayne and bee for and towards the maynetenance of an usher to teache under the Scholemaster of Stockport for ever . |
| 15 | I would like to thank you for helping my case by removing the names of my coauthors — Jim Bull and Robert Paxton — from the article ‘ Why some insects look pretty nasty ’ ( 6 January , p 26 ) . |
| 16 | I submitted an article to the journal of which one of my coauthors was editor . |
| 17 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 18 | Aye it 's in between my , well in the bottom of my shoulder blades . |
| 19 | It was when she took a chunk out of my shoulder and nearly bit my damn ear off that I got the message . |
| 20 | Neither of them had taken the slightest notice of my movements , except that Mr Parsons was already in my empty chair , and the two of them , with Ewen Mackay 's flask of whisky now standing between them , were talking about salmon fishing . |
| 21 | This way the badgers are never startled by the sound of my movements |
| 22 | I 've given the sergeant an account of my movements last night . |
| 23 | You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind . |
| 24 | Now that 's , that 's a prediction that I think er you would n't make on the basis of the Freudian theory , but on the basis of my interpretation of it , it kind of follows . |
| 25 | Masai elders enter these tiny shacks , elegant in their cloaks and blankets but looking to me — from the dusty , baking cab of my Toyota — shifty . |
| 26 | Gradually my eyes got used to the glare and I was able to make sense of my surroundings . |
| 27 | FISHBONE : The Reality Of My Surroundings |
| 28 | MISLEADINGLY TAKING its title from their latest long-player , The Reality Of My Surroundings is a dazzling history of Fishbone 's seven-year career . |
| 29 | For three days and nights I lay in bed , exhausted by my experiences , and hardly conscious of my surroundings . |
| 30 | ‘ Looking at the gravity and harshness of my surroundings I was temporarily dazzled in the glare of sunlight . |