Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While my right hand spooned up the sweet pulp and hefted my glass of Alsace riesling , my left explored the contours of my neighbour 's inner calf and the hollow behind her knee . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend sets out the reasons why I wish we were negotiating in Europe , not the Government . |
| 3 | And may at last my weary age find out the peaceful hermitage , the hairy gown and mossy sill where I may sit and rightly spell of every star that heaven doth show , and every herb that sips the dew , till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain . ’ |
| 4 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 5 | I now see the white corpuscles of my immune system streaming down the torch beams , abseiling to the rescue like demented camouflaged commandos in the Arctic . |