Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 2 | My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims . |
| 3 | ‘ My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My heart goes out to the father and to all the family . |
| 5 | My hair falls out at the slightest touch , sometimes leaving little bald patches . |
| 6 | My hair comes out like a bird 's nest and my eyes look slitty . |
| 7 | ‘ My enthusiasm for my cooking spills over into the restaurant , ’ he said . |
| 8 | My contract runs out at the end of this trip . |
| 9 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 10 | ‘ My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’ |
| 11 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 12 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 13 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 14 | ‘ When my wife comes back with the shopping we 're going to try out this new jib ; she 'll be back any minute . |
| 15 | My tongue hangs up in the leaves |
| 16 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 17 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 18 | My date gets out of the car to go buy popcorn while I fix up the speaker . |
| 19 | The little onward-beating heart of my son bashes on through the night , its strong signal being transmitted through and across several layers of pillows . |