Example sentences of "[noun pl] and my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ he kissed her goodbye , ‘ I will take my beautiful legs and my useless member away and let you sleep . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ For your lordship 's letter , duly come to hand , I send you my thanks and my grateful sense of your lordship 's kindness and good feeling towards me . |
| 3 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 4 | Now , lad , you were curious earlier as to my movements and my changed countenance . |
| 5 | glad of familiar accents and my dull wife . |
| 6 | The clear view of both miners and my hon. Friends is that the proposed abolition of the 1908 Act is to pave the way for privatisation by deregulating vital safety provisions and allowing the employer to introduce an extended normal working day in the guise of a flexible shift . |
| 7 | That brief story you told about how my physical appearance might affect my social interactions and my social interactions might affect my psychic make up . |
| 8 | They seemed quite pleasant young people , who listened intently to my greetings , my introductions and my little jokes . |
| 9 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 10 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
| 11 | Och , I have my good days and my bad days . |
| 12 | I 've seventeen weeks and my total gain is seven pounds , which is on target . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I like to write modern pieces and my favourite authors are Fay Weldon and Slyvia Plath . |
| 14 | I 'm still in my army trousers and my one-hundred-per-cent cotton shirt made in Bombay . |
| 15 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 16 | I remembered all sorts of things and my young father hardly at all . |
| 17 | To finish I had an amazing acacia honey cheesecake with caramelized satsumas and my gluttonous partner went for chef Vickery 's selection which featured tasty samples of many delicious desserts . |
| 18 | I was wearing a shirt of green silk loose round the wrists and my green linen culottes — I had found they creased less than a skirt when sitting in a coach . |
| 19 | As long as I stay confined to this moral nihilism , the single unquestioned imperative will be to act intelligently , and in particular to be aware of objective conditions , of those obstinate facts about external difficulties and my own limitations which thwart my efforts unless I recognize and adapt myself to them . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd turn the rifles on the officers and my first shot would be aimed at that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 21 | I have my maze , I have my secret chamber , my own silent guards , my wolf hounds and my beloved pistols . |
| 22 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 23 | I therefore form a hypothesis about an appropriate contribution based on the proposition being considered , the associated facts and logic , the personalities of my fellow committee members and my own standing within the committee . |
| 24 | You know I ca n't find anywhere to put my joysticks and my light guns . |
| 25 | I had by now recovered my scattered senses and after finishing off my enjoyable meal of pie and peas and my second pint , I thanked my kind new-found friends and left the hospitable Railway bar to walk back down to where my trusty old Morris Minor was parked . |
| 26 | There was nothing alarming in the proceedings and my abiding memory is of the closing act , being exhorted to greet and hug one another , something I found exceedingly strange . |
| 27 | Other elements are just naff : the mermaids look like crosses between Las Vegas showgirls and My Little Ponies , and the lair of the Lost Boys resembles a rejected set for Starlight Express . |
| 28 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 29 | Why I love Beryl Reid , my elbows and my best friend Tish ! |
| 30 | With bands like Nirvana , the Pixies and My Bloody Valentine beyond reproach from the music press and the record-buying public there has never been a better time to play guitars with manic fervour . |