Example sentences of "some of my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Borrow some of my kinky underwear , ’ she suggests , ‘ if it 'll make you feel more comfortable . ’ |
2 | And I suppose it was some of my great grandfathers or some of them , had the looking after of them . |
3 | Some of my good friends here say to me , ‘ We 're all for what MRA is doing — in fact , you 're preaching to the converted — all except this God bit . ’ |
4 | But he appeared quite anxious throughout the interview , often leaving the room or calling to one of his ubiquitous assistants when the interview started getting , as he put it , ‘ too hard ’ ( ‘ Uh , Susanna , who would some of my female heroes be ? ’ ) . |
5 | It 's been on T. V. now , destroying some of my mental scenery for ever . |
6 | I would add that erm that is of course not my only interest erm but some of my other interests are very much related to it . |
7 | Unlike some of my other correspondents , they replied promptly . |
8 | So , I write , as well as this diary , some of my new novel ( a killer , this one , dealing as it does with post-Holocaust survivors ' guilt ; why do I set myself these agonies ? ) and start pinch-hitting for Gloria Hunniford on Radio Two . |
9 | ‘ Some of my closest friends are homosexuals . |
10 | As a postscript to this , I can say in all sincerity : ‘ Some of my best friends are Gentiles . ’ |
11 | As little as possible , but some of my best friends love it , so it depends on them . |
12 | Some of the most common forms of ambivalence , of course , are expressed in disavowals such as ‘ Some of my best friends are … ’ , or ‘ You [ some ] are all right , it 's the rest … ’ . |
13 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
14 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
15 | Some of my best friends are civil servants , but what the hell do civil servants know about working in the mining industry ? |
16 | They included the Young Conservatives Ball , Tim Janman 's Conservative Political Centre lecture entitled ‘ Some of my best friends … ‘ , and Andrew Neil 's party on behalf of The Sunday Times . |
17 | Yes , yes , well some of my , some of my best friends are sociologists , so I must be careful . |
18 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
19 | ‘ I am delighted that Jarvis 's Frayn has had a good reaction , as I think it is some of my best work . ’ |
20 | This is some of my best work . ’ |
21 | I certainly did n't need a nubile young beauty cavorting among some of my best business contacts . ’ |
22 | This personal excursion has been around some favourite isolated hills — there are many others — a few which have given some of my best mountain days . |
23 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |
24 | Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box . |
25 | With hindsight , I question some of my early motives and certainly now see different ways of exploring choices with students . |
26 | If this is so , some of my earliest memories heralded a life full of gloom and disaster , or at best , a consuming interest in the spectacular , even the morbid . |
27 | Well er I think some of my earliest memories are er dating to the First World War time when I was a boy and we lived in Street which er during the war , we made a shift to which was really the opposite side of the street . |
28 | ‘ I played some of my earliest gigs at the club , ’ Joel says . |
29 | Some of my negative qualities that I like are : Some that I do n't like are : |
30 | It was surprising to see how sentimental some of my Russian pals could be , aided and abetted by the national drink . |