Example sentences of "[noun pl] to my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis , who had a break of 71 , commented : ‘ I had to adopt totally different tactics to my last match . |
| 2 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 3 | Many thanks to my two guests — to John Collinswood from Mechanical Management Services Limited in Thame , and to Roy Hill the Deputy Trading Standards Officer for Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 4 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
| 5 | Well many thanks to my three guests . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry that our time is up , but many thanks to my three guests today ; to Phyllis Starkey , the leader of the Labour Group on Oxford City Council ; to Michael Wright , from the Liberal Democrat benches ; and from Queenie Warley from the Conservatives . |
| 7 | Briefly , I should like to respond to the Secretary of State and to express my thanks to my hon. Friends who have contributed positively to improving the Bill . |
| 8 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 9 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 10 | The emotive , unthinking responses to my earlier letter by D J Hollingdale and Roy Morrison ( Points of View , today ) were prefigured in January 1992 by Tom Nairn in his column . |
| 11 | It points out advantages to my divorced state I had n't thought of before . ’ |
| 12 | Eighteen months , in fact , as well as making regular visits to my local hospital , and they felt that … well , in the circumstances , my being away from home , I should bring my notes and this letter with me . ’ |
| 13 | Pulling my coat more closely round me , I turned my attention from the dark shape of the broch and its flitting ghosts to my own situation . |
| 14 | You can forget those laughable , knee-jerk comparisons to My Bloody Valentine , for starters . |
| 15 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 16 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 17 | I charged across the sands , the dunes to my left moving by like stands on a racetrack . |
| 18 | To turn back the pages to my early memories of harvest time , on the smaller farms is to have opened a book on nostalgia . |
| 19 | ‘ When I like people a lot , I never tell their names to my other friends . |
| 20 | When appropriate , it is gently suggested to the organisers that they should themselves donate an agreed percentage of their takings to my chosen charity for the year . |
| 21 | ON THE transatlantic phone from a Dallas hotel room where she 's having a rest from touring America as support to the Lemonheads , Juliana is often forthright and sometimes evasive , giving short , sharp answers to my silly questions . |
| 22 | The confusion about the project has been made worse by the Government 's vacillation and indecision , and also by their lack of answers to my hon. Friends about where the finance for the project will come from . |
| 23 | I recognise that that provision has limited payments to my hon. Friend 's constituents , but it is no longer limiting payments to doctors because , as of April of this year , it no longer applies . |
| 24 | So off she went , while I got on with transferring my mini-weapons to my own costume . |
| 25 | A child , I feel , will make me a better person and draw the attention of others to my good character . |
| 26 | I have sent dozens of letters to my hon. Friend the Minister of State , Department of Education and Science . |
| 27 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 28 | I am delighted to send my congratulations to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 29 | I echo the congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) on his maiden speech this evening . |