Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To our philosophy teacher , Professor John Macmurray , I owed the perception that my chosen trade was a treacherous one if what you looked for was strict objectivity . |
| 3 | The practice that my hon. Friend mentioned is typical . |
| 4 | The Government fully recognise the importance of the industry that my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough , ( Sir J. Farr ) so ably represents , and we want proper GATT disciplines for fair trading in this as in other sectors . |
| 5 | I give the undertaking that I will meet any delegation that my hon. Friend wishes to bring to me . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ he kissed her goodbye , ‘ I will take my beautiful legs and my useless member away and let you sleep . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have you thrown out into the fucking snow until my new orders arrive . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I still expect to have a substantial interest in the day-to-day running of the club and my assistant Lil Fuccillo will be appointed manager . ’ |
| 9 | I sit with my arms wrapped around the chrome railing and my bare heels gripping the sides . |
| 10 | There was a fluid pain at the back of my neck and my own voice was strange to me . |
| 11 | On a hot summer day , Toftingall is a super place for a splash and my golden retriever , Breac , the gaelic name for trout , used to spend hours in the loch . |
| 12 | I jolt awake with a bad taste in my mouth and my left eyelid stuck down again . |
| 13 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 14 | but how ever it is compiled it would run contrary to the principles which my Noble Friend Lord Motterstone and my Noble Friend Lord Rippon have already stated and would stated in all parts of the House . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ For your lordship 's letter , duly come to hand , I send you my thanks and my grateful sense of your lordship 's kindness and good feeling towards me . |
| 18 | ’ There was a total silence , interrupted by Hyacinth who smoothed down her skirt , grabbed her coat , and peevishly demanded , ‘ Where 's my chocolate teddy bear and my new knickers ? ’ |
| 19 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 20 | ‘ It was like death-with my children already grown up , tired of watching my movies at my own request , with my ex-wife at my side and my faithful dog . ’ |
| 21 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 22 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 23 | The House will be interested to know that , in the six months since my hon. Friend last questioned me on the subject , there have been 992 call-outs from RAF Chivenor and 591 people have been assisted . |
| 24 | The difference is that she never felt guilty about it , whereas I , who have devoured baby and child books since my first pregnancy test was positive , do . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , being a serving soldier whilst my own boys were growing up , I missed nearly all their boyhood . |
| 26 | I 'm not as much of a self-deluder as my fellow committee members . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend represents his city with as much assiduity as my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) represents his , and both are keen on a move by the Sports Council to one of those two great cities . |
| 28 | I have got two children and I 'm hoping to go to college when my youngest daughter is three cos I ca n't get her , ca n't go until she is three cos the creche wo n't take them until they 're out of nappies and three year old . |
| 29 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 30 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |