Example sentences of "my [noun sg] 's [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair 's mostly gone . |
| 2 | ‘ My contract 's still got time to run . ’ |
| 3 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
| 4 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 5 | He says : ‘ I 'm thrilled my dream 's finally come true . ’ |
| 6 | My grandma 's still got my grandad 's stuff somewhere . ’ |
| 7 | without asking , it comes up on the er have er , I 'll ask her first hello it 's the G P G engineer love , yeah , er my pager 's just gone off , is it okay to use my telephone just to answer it please ? |
| 8 | And she said , oh my husband 's just renewed his . |
| 9 | It sounds , it sounds odd saying , oh my husband 's just renewed his , it makes it sound as if he has n't had a P S V erm licence for a while . |
| 10 | I 've nearly died several times , and my back 's never been strong . |
| 11 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 12 | Oh my tie 's just broken . |
| 13 | My friend 's just had a go at skiing . |
| 14 | ‘ My friend 's never been here before . |
| 15 | Oh brilliant I think my gob 's just recovered from that . |
| 16 | My wife 's just gone America shark fishing . |
| 17 | Anyhow , my father 's just taken her to the doctor 's , so I thought I 'd give you a ring . |
| 18 | And my leg 's never been properly better since . |
| 19 | Er actually my cousin 's just recently been married er then again I do n't know her phone number at this present time but I 'll , I 'll perhaps , I 'll perhaps er |
| 20 | There 's an apocryphal story about former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , that his opening gambit in chit-chat was often ‘ My grandmother 's just died . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then my journey 's not been totally wasted , has it ? ’ |
| 22 | My shadow 's just arrived . ’ |
| 23 | She said to me , she said , my mum and , my dad 's just lost his so |
| 24 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |
| 25 | My brain 's just died ! |
| 26 | My son 's just eaten our telephone ! |
| 27 | My brother 's usually got a pen . |
| 28 | My Super 's already got his knickers in a twist . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ My mother 's just gone off with Rupert Campbell-Black , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I suspect these things are genetic because my mother 's just had a hysterectomy , but I was lucky that the condition had n't developed into anything more serious . |