Example sentences of "and my [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They were placed in an 8 gallon ( 36l ) tank with some plant cover and my normal tap water of pH 7.8 , GH 450ppm and a temperature of 76° F ( 24° C ) . |
2 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
3 | And let the Bishop Don Hieronymo go on one side of me , and my trusty Gil Diaz on the other , and he shall lead my horse . |
4 | Then there were the children , Gtudu and Krotho , my cousins , and my young brother Klogo . ’ |
5 | The enclosed cheque is made up as follows : - and my personal NatWest cheque number 000833 is enclosed in the sum of One Hundred and Eight Pounds Thirty Pence ( £108.30 ) . |
6 | I 'm still in my army trousers and my one-hundred-per-cent cotton shirt made in Bombay . |
7 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
8 | Me and my best bud Emma did a sponsored-eating-jelly-with-chopsticks-in-half-an-hour-athon ! ! |
9 | I put on my black wool suit and my best silk blouse as consolation — might as well , before she somehow manages to ruin that , too . |
10 | I 've been able to enjoy hours of intensive cuddling , and my elder daughter Arcadia ( four — and almost as baby-mad as me ) has been in heaven too . |
11 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
12 | ‘ I still expect to have a substantial interest in the day-to-day running of the club and my assistant Lil Fuccillo will be appointed manager . ’ |
13 | ‘ But in the case of Just You Dare it belongs to Cyril Murphy , the horse 's lad , and my long serving work-rider-cum-jockey Colin Nutter . ’ |
14 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
15 | And my other favourite shop I love in Woking is the birthday shop . |
16 | My five-month-old son is wearing suits to fit a 12–18-month-old , while my four-year-old is wearing clothes for a child aged six to seven years , and my seven-year-old fits garments sized eight to nine years ! |
17 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
18 | ‘ Please thank everyone on my behalf , their efforts were very much appreciated , and my next dinner service will , of course , be Wedgwood . ’ |
19 | I now belong to my local drama group , which is great fun , and my local history group , which is fascinating . |
20 | Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car . |
21 | And my old team-mate John Aldridge continues to score goals on a regular basis . |
22 | And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up . |
23 | And my wildest night s dream |
24 | Both Ken Clarke and my special adviser Nicholas True made it clear that a good speech was ‘ needed ’ at the Party Conference in Blackpool . |
25 | And I 'm in the back in my little corner and my beloved wife Sandra walked in on what was , unbeknownst to her , this maniac , writing furious and tired . |
26 | Er as is my tax reference number and my national insurance number . |
27 | out of that and my National Insurance contributions , that 's all I come out with |
28 | " Congress should enact the bold reform proposals that are still awaiting congressional action , bank reform , civil justice reform , tort reform , and my national energy strategy . " |
29 | Me and my lovely smile walk down the street , the sky going dark grey , every lamp post vanishing with a crack of lightning as I pass it . |
30 | I eat around 2000 to 2500 calories per day , have a sedentary job and my weekly exercise schedule is as follows two x 30 minutes , one x 6 miles , two x 30 minutes weight training . |