Example sentences of "[vb pp] my [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music of Throwing Muses has inhabited my flesh like a cold flame these past six months . |
| 2 | It is because of that commitment and my understanding of the values and decent opinions of the Province that I have placed my resignation at the Prime Minister 's disposal . |
| 3 | You have dismissed my Master of the Inner Chambers ? ’ |
| 4 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 5 | In his unobtrusive way he had shown his interest in my faltering attempts to climb the golfing ladder , and had even carried my bag in the Amateur Championship . |
| 6 | As to judicial lawmaking , the practice of prospective overruling has attracted my attention as a hard case for those theories of judicial process which involve a strong commitment to coherence , consistency and institutional fit . |
| 7 | SUZANNE , 19 , had visited my surgery for a second time in five days . |
| 8 | Now the junior minister says she is pleased ‘ that the West Midlands County Council have accepted my proposals for a sensible and reasonable division of responsibilities . ’ |
| 9 | It was as if he were saying , ‘ There , I 've done my duty as a good host . |
| 10 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 11 | I said , ‘ You have n't seen my work for the past year , have you ? ’ |
| 12 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 13 | The difference was that , having applied my colours in the same direct way , drawing from the end and edge of the pastel stick . |
| 14 | I have used my vote in the General Election once or twice , but not recently . |
| 15 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 16 | I 've got my orals on the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth |
| 17 | There 's an Antiques Fair this week just along Park End Street , and I 'd got my eye on a little set of drawers , yew-wood veneer . |
| 18 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 19 | Although I have based my designs on the blue-white-yellow colour combinations , there is no reason why you should n't use your own combination if you prefer it . |
| 20 | ‘ Often I have bent my way to the great entrance of Studley and seen twenty or more carriages waiting , unhorsed , for the return of the parties they had deposited in the morning and who were now rambling in all directions . |
| 21 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I can claim to have worked my apprenticeship in the licensed trade . |
| 23 | ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it . |
| 24 | I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns . |
| 25 | I had lost my virginity to a Belgian au pair who was a friend of my eldest sister . |
| 26 | I am 26 and have just lost my virginity after a year-long relationship . |
| 27 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 28 | I have kept my opinions to a minimum but I could not resist making observations . |
| 29 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 30 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |