Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small cemetery plot had been added since my last visit . |
| 2 | I do not know whether my hon. Friend read Gavyn Davies 's recent article , which showed that what most greatly influences investment is availability of markets and demand , and that running costs come very much second to those factors . |
| 3 | There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My legs went dead and , although I had a walkie-talkie , I could hardly speak because my right arm was wedged into my windpipe . |
| 6 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 7 | He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone . |
| 8 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |
| 9 | I am delighted to confirm that we will do as my hon. Friend has asked . |
| 10 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 11 | One of those I saw in Northampton was extremely impressive and is founded as my honourable friend says , on positive partnership . |
| 12 | However , I do still have a squashed , rather brown and mildewy rose pressed between the pages of a book somewhere , so I suppose that could be classed as my first attempt ! |
| 13 | I would n't have known ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ existed if my Great Uncle had n't spoken of it . |
| 14 | Cord Dillon is travelling as my personal representative with instructions to report back to mc about this subject directly and without reference to any intermediaries however highly placed . |
| 15 | I watched as my dear man made his way across the tarmac to the small Doha airport . |
| 16 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 17 | He 's really let himself go since my old Dad died . |
| 18 | I doubt whether my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury ( Mr. Key ) would be amused by that . |
| 19 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 20 | ‘ It does n't rank as my best win , but it was one of my toughest , ’ said the Wishaw-based Higgins . |
| 21 | ‘ It does n't rank as my best win , but it was one of my toughest , ’ said the Wishaw-based Higgins . |
| 22 | I have written to both the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister because I wonder if my civil liberties have been infringed . |
| 23 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 24 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 25 | It was most unfortunate and ironic that I was unable to assist as my main project , the Claudian conquest , was well under way . |
| 26 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 27 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 28 | Then I realized that almost everyone in what I had once regarded as my own day was probably in a similar predicament , that the shattering effects of the war had probably distributed most of 2020 back and forward throughout history ! |
| 29 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 30 | Whiteside insisted however : ‘ The faces may have changed since my last game for Northern Ireland game but one thing has n't . |