Example sentences of "[coord] my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | with my new man or my new freedom . |
2 | I consider playing the hand-held I bought in Inverness but I 'm either not hooked on it yet or my jaded palate has produced game-boredom already . |
3 | I must be quiet ; they must not hear my heart thumping or my involuntary gasp . |
4 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
5 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
6 | Not one leaf is to go out of the garden until either I or my chief taster gives the order . " |
7 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
8 | Not something that the press , my mother or my estranged wife had any influence over . |
9 | Or my own boy . |
10 | I thank my right hon. Friend for responding so promptly to my request that either his good self or my hon. Friend the Minister for Corporate Affairs should visit Nottingham . |
11 | That forthright common sense does not come from the Conservative Newsline ; nor is it a quote from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State or my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , Southgate ( Mr. Portillo ) . |
12 | In the various judgments that have been made in the High Court by Mr. Justice Brown , no contempt was found against officials or my hon. Friend for what is called phase 1 and phase 2 . |
13 | I use my own life history very much as a case study — not to privilege my chronic disability or my particular set of life events . |
14 | I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot . |
15 | My brother-in-law is either my bond friend or my mortal foe . |
16 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
17 | If the hon. Gentleman would do me the service of going to the Library and reading the judgments , he would find that in the earlier proceedings , neither the Home Office nor my hon. Friend were held in contempt for the actions that were taken on 1 and 2 May . |
18 | I 've seventeen weeks and my total gain is seven pounds , which is on target . ’ |
19 | They were placed in an 8 gallon ( 36l ) tank with some plant cover and my normal tap water of pH 7.8 , GH 450ppm and a temperature of 76° F ( 24° C ) . |
20 | Perhaps it was the contrast between this creature and my normal self . |
21 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
22 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
23 | My granny could speak it well and my great granny she could speak it and read it . |
24 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
25 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
26 | And my grandfather and my great grandfather , they were millers you see ? |
27 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
28 | And my grandfather and my great grandfather . |
29 | And my brother and my grandfather used to and my great grandfather they all took helped on the loch you see . |
30 | And my great grandfather he was a bookbinder . |