Example sentences of "one of my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my best buys was a dovetailer jig costing a little over £100. which represented a saving of £200.00 over the price here . |
| 2 | You 've got your big feet on one of my best chairs . ’ |
| 3 | Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’ |
| 4 | I do hope he is n't the murderer , I do n't want them to lock up one of my best contacts , but if you ever hear where he really was , I 'd love to know . ’ |
| 5 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 6 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 7 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 8 | ‘ Rachel was one of my best friends from school . ’ |
| 9 | The eldest was Jimmy , who was one of my best friends . |
| 10 | She used to be one of my best friends . |
| 11 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 12 | One of my best catches of big bream , five to 11lb 1oz and only one less than 9lb at 8lb 14oz , came when I was fishing alone . |
| 13 | A rat from the sewer , but one of my best informants . |
| 14 | My teeth are one of my best assets and I 'd like to keep them that way . |
| 15 | He knocked on the door , a voice rasped ‘ Come in , ’ the Sergeant opened the door , I stepped into the room , turned right and gave one of my best salutes . |
| 16 | I mean , you broke one of my best wine glasses the other day ! |
| 17 | one of my best animals I … |
| 18 | But before he was one of my best pupils … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Hmm , ’ he murmured , but she was glad to see he had lost none of his pleasantness of expression when , considering her request for a few seconds , he divulged , ‘ After almost two years without a holiday or much free time , I last week completed what I believe to be one of my best achievements . ’ |
| 20 | At the Parque Güell , at the terminus of the 24 tram ( ‘ Origin y final de los servicios ’ ) , after mounting the billy Calle de Larrad , I again experienced the peculiar pleasures of this fantastic Gaudi park , the subject of one of my best poems in The Descent into the Cave . |
| 21 | ‘ One of my early thoughts was to have the base unit moulded with two skins . |
| 22 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most remarkable inch loss of all was from Mollie Slack , one of my early volunteers from Radio Nottingham . |
| 24 | And I tell you one of my early recollections when I went to school , I 'm going back now , was er across the way from where I lived , was a family and their name was , I remember the name although I 'd only be about nine . |
| 25 | ‘ I met them on one of my early trips out here . ’ |
| 26 | In many cases the school was also the church , where the small groups of Christians , almost entirely Karen in race , gathered for Sunday worship and for Holy Communion when I was able to turn up , or occasionally one of my four Karen ‘ curates ’ . |
| 27 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 28 | I shall be illustrating each of these four views of style with one of my four examples of modern stylistics , but let me first say exactly what my headings mean . |
| 29 | ‘ Hey , cooking is one of my great loves , and naturally that means Italian . ’ |
| 30 | Ps. livingstonii — was one of my great loves in my early Mbuna-keeping days , probably because my male was not only a ‘ big softy ’ who caused me no trouble whatsoever , but also because he became a great pet . |