Example sentences of "[subord] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 2 | Where my nearest brush with show business was when my father , a tailor , made Ronnie Hilton 's jacket for Buttons in Cinderella at the Hull New Theatre . |
| 3 | ‘ Where my future lies , whether it may be with Williams , Ferrari , or elsewhere , I really do n't know . |
| 4 | Ameliaranne Stiggins , they suggest , has not been forced to take in washing to support the several children of her unfortunate failed early marriage — she did a New Horizons for Women course at her local community centre , passed her CQSW , and now works as a social worker in Tower Hamlets , where My Little Sister is her team leader . |
| 5 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 6 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 7 | Across the landing which interrupted the downward curve of the stairs was a front bedroom where my youngest aunt slept until my grandmother took to her bed — and afterwards when left alone . |
| 8 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 9 | I other day I tried to work out where my favourite resorts would come in the German magazine 's top fifty . |
| 10 | A kind choirman gave me a threepenny bit , so my total spending money for the day amounted to tenpence . |
| 11 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 12 | Sunday was bath-night , so my big sister Etty would be given the task of looking for my younger brother Jerry , Anna , the youngest of our family , and myself . |
| 13 | Like some people get a kick out of crossing the Atlantic in an old bath , so my particular surgeon , for all his great skill , is not quite right in the head . |
| 14 | He was rather vague about that , so my Hon. Friend asked him more questions . |
| 15 | As life in general was unreal and remote — seen through a sheet of glass — so my own suffering seemed unreal . |
| 16 | ‘ So my own cottage on the Donegal shore where I can slip away when I 'm not filming is the answer . |
| 17 | I come down stairs sideways , so my whole foot 's on the stair so there 's less chance of me falling down . |
| 18 | My view is that a top rate of say £100 will be acceptable to members and I will be willing to pay such a rate once my financial circumstances improve . |
| 19 | GET TO KNOW ME BETTER THAN MY BEST MATE DOES ! |
| 20 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 21 | It mocked me , but at the same time I knew I was in danger of surrendering to it , that damned semblance of what I wanted — I was being weakened by it , seduced into yielding to your power over me , and it 's so much more comprehensive than my one-dimensional influence on you . |
| 22 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 23 | I realized as I turned its pages that this was probably telling me more about the country and its people than my actual visit . |
| 24 | ‘ I opened Keith 's shirt and saw a bullet hole just a little bigger than my middle finger nail . |
| 25 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 27 | It was far worse than my first day on the wards . ’ |
| 28 | Less , indeed , than my late brother 's good name , which I consider to be more important than any financial inconvenience you may be caused by the expiry of copyright . |
| 29 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 30 | ‘ At 39 he 's a bit older than my other boyfriends and past the stage of running around . |