Example sentences of "[conj] my [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did understand however that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of that nation of which the constitution is the organic law . |
| 3 | I hope that my successor enjoys the A. S. M. Presidency as much as I have . |
| 4 | Well I wan na make sure that if anything happens to me erm before the end of the policy that my daughter gets the money because |
| 5 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 6 | The Minister will not be surprised to learn that my question concerns the regulatory environment of British Steel , in which the Government hold the golden share . |
| 7 | They demanded angrily that my father turn the car immediately so that the villages could be visited ‘ in the correct order ’ . |
| 8 | You will undoubtedly be aware that ‘ Green ’ is the marketing tool of the 90 's and that my department enforces the statutory measures which aim to protect consumers against misdescriptions and misleading claims by manufacturers . |
| 9 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 10 | ‘ This shows that my family owned the land , ’ she said with a simplicity that might have left even a lawyer silent . |
| 11 | That door is more likely to break my shoulder than my shoulder break the door . ’ |
| 12 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 13 | But colleagues , although my region supports the document , with such an important issue , caution must be our by-word as some regions have had more success than others . |
| 14 | the pace slows down and my sense arbitrates the dispute . |
| 15 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 16 | I knew what was happening , and my voice expressed the knowledge . |
| 17 | Only the hard work of my back four and my goalkeeper kept the scoreline down . ’ |
| 18 | Like say last week me and Russell never got up before , oh my mother and father come to the house right and it was quarter past ten and we were still in bed and my father put the milk cos the , my milkman leaves my milk by the gate because , with the dog , he always used to leave the gate open so I used to let the dog out in the morning and the dog would go out so I said do n't put the milk by the door , leave it just , put it over the gate cos I like the gate left shut . |
| 19 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 20 | ‘ Karl Scholz bought most of the land and my father bought the house and the rest and gave it to me to run . |
| 21 | An aunt lent her house for the occasion , my mother did most of the cooking helped by my sister , and my mother-in-law baked the cake . |
| 22 | And my grandfather married the daughter and he came to . |
| 23 | I explained again : about my job description , custom and practice and my right to do the work for which I was employed . |
| 24 | Somerset provided the supreme example of the amateur emphasis and my collection includes the autographs of W.T Creswell , G.F. Earle ( that mighty hitter ! ) . |
| 25 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 26 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 27 | Me and my mother stayed the night at Seve 's place and watched the Open on television . |
| 28 | The horse received the odd joke mention from the commentator , until my father smashed the radio , finished the whisky , and suffered a near-fatal nosebleed . |
| 29 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 30 | If my anger breaks the glass , I could be smashed to smithereens . |