Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] 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 | ‘ I 'll have you thrown out into the fucking snow until my new orders arrive . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , being a serving soldier whilst my own boys were growing up , I missed nearly all their boyhood . |
| 9 | I 'm not as much of a self-deluder as my fellow committee members . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 13 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |
| 14 | We called him Boy because my elder sister and I were born first and his arrival gave great joy . |
| 15 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 16 | I actually bought the Levin because my first choice was unavailable . |
| 17 | ‘ The sidh have not been seen in Ireland since my own father 's day , but they are still here , Fergus . |
| 18 | In my capacity as my own analyst I feel that the least I can do for my patient , and my readers , is precisely to ‘ let the case material speak for itself ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ If I die abroad in exile , let my body rest in a temporary grave until my mortal remains be transferred to our dear homeland , ’ said the Montenegrin President , Branko Kostic , reading the royal will and testament to the crowds in Cetinje Square , who carried flags and portraits of Nicholas and his queen , Milena . |
| 20 | ‘ I had to adjust my ideas because my previous designs were sharp little miniskirts … rather severe . ’ |
| 21 | It is many years since my last confession and I confess in the face of God and in the hope of his divine mercy at the imminent approach of death . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It is four years since my last midfield appearance because Colin Harvey moved be back to right back and then the injuries began . |
| 23 | The financial details of the transaction to which the hon. Member referred , and which bear no resemblance to those that he described , took place two years after my noble Friend left the Government . |
| 24 | I might be able to make use of them and train to be a teacher when my own child was at school . |
| 25 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 26 | I take a taxi since my next flight leaves in an hour . |
| 27 | Peter said : ‘ It raises a lot of laughs when my long-suffering missus , Sharon , visits crafty Chris in prison and is horrible to him . |
| 28 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 29 | It was a short bob , the same colour as my own hair . |
| 30 | Nor would snatched snaps of us going home in our car that evening have revealed any particular closeness as my passionate tirade about his behaviour fell on deaf or rather sleeping ears as he lay comatose in the passenger seat . |