Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 2 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 3 | ‘ I was upset over that telegram my beloved son sent . |
| 4 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 5 | You 'd dearly love to claim them as one of ours , the latest American band to owe an unpayable debt to Brit-rock 's influence — in this case My Bloody Valentine and what that yanks dozily call ‘ Dream Pop ’ — but that would be too simple . |
| 6 | The fascination of a middle-class man such as A. J. Munby with the hands and the boots of working-class women , or ‘ Walter 's ’ fascination with working-class girls in the anonymous sexual chronicle My Secret Life are signs of the complex sexual meanings that frequently resulted . |
| 7 | I 'll in the eye , do n't want this waste my expensive deodorant ! |
| 8 | Somewhere in the heart of the further annexe my empty office awaits me . |
| 9 | In this environment my overall feelings of job satisfaction as defined by Warr ( 1987 ) were greater than when I worked in a more traditional nursing culture — a point substantiated by Beardshaw and Robinson 's ( 1990 ) work . |
| 10 | In this respect my Working Group were following the path already trodden by the Swann Committee . |
| 11 | Since the first edition of this book my Own views have inclined more and more towards major transgressions and regressions as the main cause of organic evolution and extinction . |
| 12 | The present private health service companies like B U P A , that already , are all ready to move into the front door and take over , so this year my first report on the N H S could be replaced in nineteen ninety four on the report on the private health care industry unless we take action . |
| 13 | This time my cast lands exactly where I want it , just short of the overhanging branches . |
| 14 | This time my new-found railway craze had to be accommodated , and so in December 1986 we did a walk taking in part of the old Hendre Ddu tramway network and the Dinas Mawddwy Railway . |
| 15 | At about this time my third sister was born . |
| 16 | This time my whole UK tour has been shaped around the event . ’ |
| 17 | By this time my whole opinion of him changed . |
| 18 | In this context My Secret Life , with its vivid anecdotes describing sexual liaisons between masters and servant girls , offers an insight into the situation in which the opportunity for temptation , seduction and rape was often pervasive . |
| 19 | My ladies find it a sad chore since reading Latin does not come easily to them , and after a day spent poring over official parchments my own eyes ache so . ’ |
| 20 | M M My Lords , erm on the second point my Noble Friend makes , that 's absolutely true and it really was again quite depressing to see that erm er a member in in in the and the other place Mr Don Foster on behalf of the Liberals , had actually written to every single Chief Education Officer er concerning anti er concerning campaigning against er the opting out policy , as to the other point my Noble Friend makes , it 's absolutely true that erm all the service that have been done and there 's one very recently reported , that the amount of value for money o obtained for every single grant maintained school outstrips the L E A maintained schools . |
| 21 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 22 | A REAL life My Little Pony has moved into an Essex animal park after being rescued from appalling conditions and almost certain death . |
| 23 | At that point my invariant use of it will have served its purpose , and I will reconsider my position . |
| 24 | At that moment my fourth pall-bearer and his wife , who had suffered traffic problems , scampered to their seats . |
| 25 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 26 | Unravelling this startling turn of events it transpired that due to the vagaries of the recording mechanism of answering machines my original message had sounded like ‘ died ’ not ‘ resigned ’ . |
| 27 | Childhood with my parents , school , the army , Cambridge , and in later life my various careers , marriage and the relationship with my own children each added their layer . |
| 28 | Her startling tears my richest friend . |
| 29 | By some freak of natural injustice my five tickets won me no fewer than three prizes ; not bad for a stake of 50p . |
| 30 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |