Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 2 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 3 | My hand was throbbing and light-headedness was giving way to a headache which made my left eyebrow twitch . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was the clash of Third World beach and Dallas skyscraper which triggered my uncharitable scepticism about his extraordinary Utopianism . |
| 5 | During the engagement A.A. bursts were exploding all round me , my port plane received a near miss which made a large hole and spattered the aircraft with splinters , which injured my left elbow . ’ |
| 6 | We were in Mrs Mackintosh 's Tea Roomes , just off West Nile Street , surrounded by straightly pendulous light fitments , graph-paper pierced wooden screens , and ladder-back seats which turned my usual procedure of hanging my coat or jacket on the rear of the seat into an operation that resembled hoisting a flag up a tall mast . |
| 7 | For those whose husbands had not yet returned , which included my own husband , it was a time of unhappy waiting . |
| 8 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 9 | One was kept in Kathleen 's office and the other one , which had my regular clothes in it , I kept with me in my broom cupboard . |
| 10 | Whenever she turned , whenever she spoke , they exuded an excitement which had my young loins stirring . |
| 11 | In the house there was all the festive cheer of last year and the same glorious whiff of sage and onion which set my gastric juices surging . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , what did my dear Constable Fenwick say ? ’ |