Example sentences of "[subord] my [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm beginning to get very confused about exactly where my head stops and the rest of the world starts . |
| 2 | ‘ You know I 'm not working , I 'm down here trying to find out where my stuff 's gone to . ’ |
| 3 | There the air rises hotly and on it an eagle may soar further south to where Slorne 's kind live , and where my kind come from too . ’ |
| 4 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 5 | I wonder sometimes where my cousin ended up ; at the bottom of the sea , or washed on to some craggy and deserted shore , or blown on to a high mountain face , to be eaten by gulls or eagles … |
| 6 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 7 | I was born in 1902 in Windsor , where my father was head gardener on a small estate named Abbey House , and where my mother had been cook . |
| 8 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 9 | For the first year I had a room on campus but I was n't happy there so I returned to Cliff Top , where my mother put one of the caravans at my disposal . |
| 10 | During this time , the rest of the family might take a holiday — staying in the attic of Uncle Jim 's boarding house at Morecambe Bay , where my mother helped with the cooking and serving , or borrowing Auntie Mary 's caravan for a week at Saltburn . |
| 11 | ‘ I landed on a lump of wood , felt another crash on to my face and was just getting up when a huge piece of glass fell where my neck had been . |
| 12 | Today , in my constituency of Brecon and Radnor , where my father came from and where I come from , unemployment has doubled in the past 15 months . |
| 13 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 14 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 15 | Where my father shaved |
| 16 | Imagine my horror when I found out that the fire had now spread to this building , where my father worked . |
| 17 | The smith 's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter 's shop . |
| 18 | The left haunch was matted red with blood where my pellet had hit it . |
| 19 | There was just an empty space where my hatred had been . |
| 20 | Immediately my father started matching me with all kinds of licensed murderous thugs , and one in particular who had become the amateur flyweight champion of Scotland . |
| 21 | My husband was here and he was a great friend of my uncle so my uncle arranged it all . |
| 22 | When we first made love , I would lie on the bed in a certain way so my tummy did n't flop , then I realised it was me he loved , flab and all . ’ |
| 23 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 24 | The soap I use is shared by the whole family , so my wife makes sure that it 's that pure white , unperfumed stuff for sensitive skin . |
| 25 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 26 | She had gone badly wrong — so my dad said — with a case of genital herpes . |
| 27 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 28 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 29 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 30 | We wanted to make an early start for home after a caravan holiday in Cornwall but I was so worried that we 'd oversleep , so my husband said he had an idea . |