Example sentences of "in my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spotted the chink in my armour . |
| 2 | I knew I should throw her to the patrol and make my own getaway , but she appealed to the chink in my armour . |
| 3 | Still virginal in my dealings with the music press , I was to be despatched to the Reading Festival to cover this bastion of the British rock calendar for NME . |
| 4 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 5 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 6 | Still in my dressing gown , was n't I ? |
| 7 | The chairs in my dressing room may have been hard but they were soft enough for Meryl Streep , Al Pacino , Tom Berenger , Julie Harris , Rosemary Harris , Joanne Woodward and Kathleen Turner . |
| 8 | I wish you all Long Life — I 'm devastated not to be there and am scribbling this in haste in my dressing room . |
| 9 | My bedroom contained boxes and boxes of tea , and I was always happy to have new brews with which to concoct more original combos in my teapot . |
| 10 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 11 | George Gordon was President of Magdalen ; he was a liberal-minded man of distinction and charm , always friendly and interested in my doings . |
| 12 | ‘ I was running just 20 miles a week in my build up for the race . |
| 13 | If I told you I 'd a revolver hidden in my glove compartment ? |
| 14 | Sixpence safe in my glove , a clean handkerchief , |
| 15 | The table and chart should change as I alter the data in my spreadsheet ( the firm that did the survey keeps changing its mind over the results ) and I 'd like to import or draw a graphic to make the page as eye-catching as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ When I 'm on rest days , I phone up if I know anybody in my unit has been poorly . |
| 17 | Somewhere in my abdomen was a sac of warm caring , a bladder of emotional nutrition , distended with the urge to burst and engender another 's heart . |
| 18 | ‘ IN the middle of the night , I woke up with gripey pains low down in my abdomen , rather like a stomach upset . |
| 19 | In my talks to teachers I often repeat these five views . |
| 20 | I 've arranged for her to work in my Paris branch . |
| 21 | He might have spotted something slightly different in my attitude last summer because the timing of the ICC decision to reprieve us rebels virtually coincided with Tuffers ' return to the Middlesex side after recovering from his stomach operation . |
| 22 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 23 | In my attitude , you know , I , I think you know I think they 're all prats and stuff and I do n't joke around like that . |
| 24 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 25 | They were interested in my opinions but not my circumstances , so that I did not have to invent any tales about my past . |
| 26 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
| 27 | I wonder if he was there when I blundered in upon Ephraim 's body in my wanderings ? |
| 28 | You sit beside me in my arms . |
| 29 | You are warm in my arms , your body right next to mine . |
| 30 | I lay as if you were there and loved the shape your back had made , had a sense of your silky warmth , my body curling round the heat and wonder of you in my arms . |