Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bus is my ticket to freedom . |
| 2 | He is my angel of music ! |
| 3 | The jangling , chipped mobile that is my window of vision makes thought very tiring . |
| 4 | When Hook , communing with his ego , murmured , ‘ How still the night is ; nothing sounds alive … split my infinitives , but ‘ t is my hour of triumph ’ , the mast creaked ominously and all but fell against the backcloth . |
| 5 | What is my state of mind ? |
| 6 | The telephone has to be manned 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , so when it is my turn on duty ( at night or at the weekends ) , answering the phone occupies much of my time . |
| 7 | It was a rock ‘ n ’ roll record which is my kind of music . |
| 8 | I 'm really not the energetic type on holiday — building up a tan by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven . |
| 9 | The other is my lack of understanding of sending money abroad — on the face of it , anything we send is liable to a double loss , once when exchanged into a form suitable for sending to America ( Covenant House ) and again when passed onto Guatemala . |
| 10 | For me my reality is my lack of reality . |
| 11 | Spending money with dealers whose taste I like is my method of shopping , but it is always fun , and often profitable , to have a flutter at the auction rooms . |
| 12 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 13 | This is my point of view . |
| 14 | ‘ OK , ’ said Marina , ‘ this is my version of psychoanalysis . |
| 15 | That is my ambition for trust status hospitals in Scotland , and that is what I believe that we shall achieve . |
| 16 | What is my definition of hospitality ? |
| 17 | The other thing that I wish to update the Council on is my deliberations in respect of establishing a section here at . |
| 18 | ’ It is my job as Company Manager , ’ said Wallas Ward primly , ‘ to listen to points from everyone in the company and the author is just as important as — ’ |
| 19 | In other words , this is my understanding of mediocrity . |
| 20 | If , as Goldstein and Cuttance ( 1988 ) assert , the best single indicator of a pupil 's future success in examinations is her/his ability at intake , it is essential to do this if exam results are to be used to compare schools . |
| 21 | ‘ They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with other girls . |
| 22 | They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with any other girls . |
| 23 | THAT 'S MY BIT OF SKY 1912–1914 A.D. |
| 24 | ‘ That 's my bit of luck — the trust fund thrown in as well as your extraordinary mama . |
| 25 | ‘ Now it 's my turn for question-time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That 's my idea of paradise , ’ she told him . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's my idea of bliss to stand in the kitchen with the window open on a beautiful summer 's day , following some complicated recipe in the hope that it will come out all right , ’ she says . |
| 28 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 29 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 30 | That 's my response on behalf of the C E C. |