Example sentences of "[conj] my [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 2 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 3 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 4 | That was like the day I had them out was the day that my first N H S appointment would have been and it it 's like , you know |
| 5 | In one of my lectures to the Staff Colleges , The Bombing Years — A View from the Cockpit , I can say as pertinently as I can that my first bombing tour was a complete and utter waste of time . |
| 6 | Not that I know much about him , just that my philosophical friend Kevin Rice despised him . |
| 7 | Having said that my two roles models , if you like , are Jean-Pierre Rives and Michael Jones . |
| 8 | Since I am certain that my dear cousin Araminta will neglect to inform you of it , allow me to introduce myself . |
| 9 | Erm , on page thirty you talk about the erm Employer 's Federation in the er minimum terms and conditions , well I 'm only hoping that my own firm Securicor do n't have any er input into that , because er as you know they unilaterally reduced all the terms and conditions Securicor guarding and cleaning recently erm I 'd like to know when we intend meeting with Securicor Cleaner I do know you 've written to them on a number of occasions and their refusal to meet with us . |
| 10 | I am happy to report that my own horse Turnip is feeling extremely well in herself , as the Irish say , following her minor tendon injury . |
| 11 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 12 | My Lords , I very much hope that my Noble friend Lord Fellows , the Minister will feel able to er take the advice of my Noble friend Lord Wrenton er for a particular er and it is not quite the same reason as his . |
| 13 | The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons ( Mr. John Wakeham ) : It is not possible to provide the information that my Hon. Friend requests , as attendance by peers in their Gallery depends largely on the business of the House . |
| 14 | However , as you know , most of my savings had vanished while I was unemployed and when I was offered a very nice flat near the school , the financial advantages of making that my single home base seemed overwhelming . |
| 15 | When we nodded assent , Mr Murray smiled ‘ And would it be true to suggest that my old friend Tom Warner is the Divisional Superintendent here for the C.P.R. ? |
| 16 | Also , I was conscious that my little friend Suzi Hoflin is usually the only young one at these evenings , so I thought a couple of extra women nearer her own age would make her feel less conspicuous . ’ |
| 17 | A kind choirman gave me a threepenny bit , so my total spending money for the day amounted to tenpence . |
| 18 | Sunday was bath-night , so my big sister Etty would be given the task of looking for my younger brother Jerry , Anna , the youngest of our family , and myself . |
| 19 | ‘ I opened Keith 's shirt and saw a bullet hole just a little bigger than my middle finger nail . |
| 20 | Despite a pile of unread reprints now measuring 16 inches tall , I read this book because of the nagging suspicion that in a field that has grown as rapidly as vascular biology and medicine I might be missing more than my 16 inch stack suggested . |
| 21 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |
| 22 | They were placed in an 8 gallon ( 36l ) tank with some plant cover and my normal tap water of pH 7.8 , GH 450ppm and a temperature of 76° F ( 24° C ) . |
| 23 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 24 | And let the Bishop Don Hieronymo go on one side of me , and my trusty Gil Diaz on the other , and he shall lead my horse . |
| 25 | Then there were the children , Gtudu and Krotho , my cousins , and my young brother Klogo . ’ |
| 26 | The enclosed cheque is made up as follows : - and my personal NatWest cheque number 000833 is enclosed in the sum of One Hundred and Eight Pounds Thirty Pence ( £108.30 ) . |
| 27 | I 'm still in my army trousers and my one-hundred-per-cent cotton shirt made in Bombay . |
| 28 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 29 | Me and my best bud Emma did a sponsored-eating-jelly-with-chopsticks-in-half-an-hour-athon ! ! |
| 30 | I put on my black wool suit and my best silk blouse as consolation — might as well , before she somehow manages to ruin that , too . |