Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final effect is perversely exotic and I feel my usual pang of jealousy . |
| 2 | My usual state of mind is ‘ what am I dying of this week . ’ |
| 3 | In accordance with my usual run of luck , I climbed up into thick mist , and being too lazy and smug to take a bearing I followed what seemed to be a well-worn path heading in the right direction for Beinn Dorain . |
| 4 | Just my usual sort of luck . |
| 5 | It 's very striking , but not my usual sort of thing . |
| 6 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 7 | so and erm , and still my total number of calls come to seventy odd pounds but then , over above that is rental and then VAT |
| 8 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 9 | It is so far removed , not only from my normal run of experience , but from anything I have ever done that it seems beyond the realms of reality , a fantasy production , a dream come true . |
| 10 | I do not train specifically for the indoor season , but continue to carry out my normal programme of track endurance running , tyre-pulling and weight-training . |
| 11 | Though you know being telegraph-boy is n't in my normal line of business . |
| 12 | Where 's Thierry with my bloody cup of tea ? |
| 13 | ‘ You are my sole source of strength . ’ |
| 14 | Rosalind Belben 's ‘ My sole feeling of happiness lies in the fact that no one knows where I am ’ stands out as a brilliant piece of writing , but the stories by Alison Fell , Tom Wakefield , Ian Breakwell , and Elizabeth Cook are also noteworthy , particularly the last about two women who send each other erotic messages by leaving little bite-marks on their mutual man 's body . |
| 15 | In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles . |
| 16 | And I needed my dry bed of Bibles . |
| 17 | Some day John , you , me and my once-blonde head of hair are destined to meet … |
| 18 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 19 | ‘ I was not saluted , I was not given my proper form of address . |
| 20 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 21 | I need to take my old pile of sleeping bags or something . |
| 22 | Kant , according to Hegel , forgets that there are some aspects of personality that can not be alienated : for instance , ‘ my universal freedom of will , my ethical life , my religion ’ ( para. 66 ) . |
| 23 | This was just as well , given my abysmal lack of knowledge about the department 's range of services . |
| 24 | ‘ This is my favourite part of Roma , from here all the way to the Porta Appia — the old city gate . |
| 25 | There was another memorable moment a few months later when she was flown to Leeds by the same helicopter — ‘ I have to admit , it 's my favourite method of transport ’ — to attend a Press conference . |
| 26 | ‘ This is my favourite time of day , before the rush starts , when everything is quiet . ’ |
| 27 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 28 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 29 | It was so different from other Christmases I had known that it ought to have remained like a beacon in my mind , but I know that my strongest memory of Christmas will always be bound up with a certain little cat . |
| 30 | We were on dipped-beam ; the instruments glowed orange in front of the delicious , straight-armed , black-skirted , Doc-shoed , crop-blonde , purse-lipped Verity ; my angelic bird of paradise , driving like a bat out of hell . |