Example sentences of "my [noun] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 2 | Yesterday Fr Buckley said : ‘ I can confirm that my solicitors have issued writs for libel against Fr Clery . |
| 3 | You do n't say : ‘ Oh , my mum 's got cancer , we ca n't do this or that . ’ |
| 4 | A fortnight before leaving home my sister had developed mumps , but with the advice of two Harley Street specialists to proceed , I did so and hoped fate would be kind . |
| 5 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 6 | My Department has invested £17 million since 1979-80 on wave energy research , including £900,000 for an experimental shoreline wave energy project on the Scottish island of Islay , which is the most technologically advanced of its type in the world . |
| 7 | I can do almost anything with this improved body , but my mind has got blas about it . |
| 8 | I do understand that some people with my condition have to take goodness knows how many tablets of one sort or another each and every day , so I suppose I am fortunate . |
| 9 | My legs have stopped dancing . |
| 10 | I began a slow jog , but after a quarter of a mile , it seemed that my feet had gained weight and that somebody was sitting on my chest . |
| 11 | My parents had fitted cupboards and wardrobes , you know , fitted like throughout their room , it 's like , the normal two cupboards on one side , the cupboards above , plus the extra fitting and like wall fittings and , then the back bits by the bed , and then they had stable door and the big long dressing table and the end unit , and they actually bought different side panels for different wardrobe fittings . |
| 12 | My parents had had breakfast too , and we talked about the service . |
| 13 | Bellybutton said in an indignant voice , as though my question had impugned McIllvanney 's honour . |
| 14 | Oh my pen 's gone walkies . |
| 15 | My officials have met representatives of the local education authorities to discuss various aspects of the new proposals and there has also been correspondence with the Department . |
| 16 | I think I have changed machines more times than my husband has changed cars ! |
| 17 | Over the past three months Bristol Babcock in my constituency has received export orders of £10 million . |
| 18 | Harar could hardly have changed since my father had visited Dedjazmatch Balcha . |
| 19 | In truth there was no connection , for my original family name was Sillitoe , but , long before I was born , my father had adopted Breakspear as his stage name and I had really known no other . |
| 20 | My father had helped Margaret during the early years , but directly Dickie had been old enough to board at his preparatory school Margaret had insisted on returning to nursing and becoming sole breadwinner . |
| 21 | Sadly , my father had to find work in the Gulf just before the last war and died out there when I was three years old . |
| 22 | It 's very windy and a lot of my people have had troublew with the high winds , being knocked off the ridge . |
| 23 | Would my neighbours have let Lou and me have Sophie and Ben ? |
| 24 | ‘ You mean … my daughter had taken Celia to the beach alone ? ’ |
| 25 | All , all my windows have got locks on and I said I 'm about six foot four and anyone gets in here I 'll kill them . |
| 26 | All my windows have got locks on I said . |
| 27 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 28 | Some of my friends has got silver in . |
| 29 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 30 | We arrived in Geneva soon after my letter had reached Elizabeth . |