Example sentences of "in [noun] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In case my digestive juices were making so much noise that none of you heard what I said , I 'll repeat it . |
| 2 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 3 | I 'll go armed with a few of my best designs , just in case my big break awaits me ! ’ |
| 4 | In becoming anorexic , I was saying to those who were in effect my social superiors , ‘ I can contribute nothing to the community ; look how little I have/am . ’ |
| 5 | However , in Committee my Hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk , West ( Mr. Canavan ) pointed out that the report and accounts for 1987–88 referred to six trustees responsible for TOPS and a management committee of 10 . |
| 6 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 7 | In theory my hon. Friend is correct . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was a kid in California my flying instructor was a guy who had flown with the Lafayette Escadrille in France . |
| 9 | The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’ |
| 10 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 11 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 12 | In fact my real belief is that in the troubles ahead of us connected with labour we are moving very fast in the direction of revolution ; and though you will consider my hope a baseless one I still entertain it — that it is by Tariff Reform that we might , so to speak , get the train at least shifted on to other lines . |
| 13 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 14 | In fact my own club stand-offs . |
| 15 | In fact my own club stand-off , Jonathan Newton , keeps my on my toes because he moves around a lot , in fact all over the place , and I just have to find him wherever he is ! |
| 16 | It 's meaningful and you may not , as I say , come out with any single and simple answer , in fact my own view really is that there 's large area over which it does n't matter very much . |
| 17 | I could not like him , in fact my whole body trembled with disgust when he touched me , but I had to protect him . |
| 18 | In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours . |