Example sentences of "my three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this that I had in mind in proposing at the outset my three notions and calling one of them , the last , language as replay . |
| 2 | I showed them my three houses , my cornfields and my goats , and all my tools . |
| 3 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |
| 4 | He roared in French at my three assailants , brandishing a huge club . |
| 5 | I was with my three mates and they stood behind me and said , " I do n't see why you should be ashamed . " |
| 6 | My three boys are terrified to sleep in their own beds . |
| 7 | However , though I can not speak for others , my three boys found it perfectly normal and natural . |
| 8 | My three trunks were upended in the corner ready for Curtis to send on the train . |
| 9 | He 's the father of my three girls |
| 10 | One of his legs was shattered by shrapnel and lying there in the burning sun he prayed to God , ‘ Please God , accept my three wishes — Please send down St. David — you know , we in Wales have tremendous faith in St. David ’ . ’ |
| 11 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 12 | Just a little drunk on my three pints , I cycled back to the island whistling . |
| 13 | ‘ My three associates and myself are willing to put big money into the club to get the best players for the team . |
| 14 | I am worried to death , what with my three sons being away in the Army . |
| 15 | I have supper with Eileen and any of my three daughters who are around . |
| 16 | My three daughters sat there waiting for me . |
| 17 | Their sentence does n't bring the father of my three daughters back . |
| 18 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 19 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
| 20 | Well many thanks to my three guests . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry that our time is up , but many thanks to my three guests today ; to Phyllis Starkey , the leader of the Labour Group on Oxford City Council ; to Michael Wright , from the Liberal Democrat benches ; and from Queenie Warley from the Conservatives . |
| 22 | If I am not completely satisfied , I will return my three books within 10 days , my membership will be cancelled and I will owe nothing . |
| 23 | Here I started my three months training along with 43 other expectant trainees . |
| 24 | My three months as a volunteer |
| 25 | A legacy which earmarks , not a particular thing , but a particular fund or collection out of which it is to come ( e.g. ‘ one of my three violins ' ) is called demonstrative . |
| 26 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 27 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 28 | much enjoyed my three years here but |
| 29 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 30 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |