Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | writes from , : MY eight-year-old grand-daughter Jennifer is learning a song at dancing school , The Black Bottom . |
| 2 | After recently having an exchange engine professionally fitted to my 1980 Range Rover , I decided to completely renew the suspension using heavy duty front and rear springs ‘ G ’ on front ‘ Y ’ on rear and four new shock absorbers . |
| 3 | To my pleasant surprise Venturous was chosen to represent our Department . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | My assistant Joanne Barker was talking on her phone and two more colleagues were in the back seat on their phones . |
| 6 | My next-door neighbour Elsie Dobson told me Clara Orchard took the baby out in the fog and the child got a terrible cough . |
| 7 | What a pleasure it always is to hear from my sole mate Mollie O'Finn from Bo'ness . |
| 8 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was my elder half-brother Trevor and my two older sisters Lisa and Lorraine and me , and there were also three cousins who were left in the same way . |
| 11 | For my emotional home Israel , pride and admiration are also in order . |
| 12 | My dear Mrs Goreng , I felt like saying , you would have been surprised to come across a hotelier who 'd read Thomas Mann . |
| 13 | ‘ Quatt , my dear Mrs Tiverton , ’ interpolated her companion , with a titter . |
| 14 | ‘ My dear Mrs Pargeter . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've been treated very badly , my dear Mrs Morey , but I hope you will remember that you have a true friend here in Chertsey , should you ever need one . |
| 16 | ‘ My dear Mrs Mitchell , |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Mrs Ormsby Gore |
| 18 | His lace assumes a natural look he 's able to sit up and breathe more normally and for a time seems well My dear Dr Dunstaple , perhaps you could explain to us why , if the symptoms are caused , as you seem to believe , by damage to the lungs or by a poison circulating in the blood and depressing the action of the heart … why it 's possible that these symptoms should thus be suspended by an injection of warm water holding a little salt in solution ? " |
| 19 | She crossed the room to him , put her hands on his lips , and said , ‘ Hush , my dear Dr Neil , hush . |
| 20 | Since I am certain that my dear cousin Araminta will neglect to inform you of it , allow me to introduce myself . |
| 21 | My dear Lady Mary , how very good to see you . ’ |
| 22 | Some though , and among them my dear lady Elizabeth ( always in her thoughts did Alianor refer thus to the queen-dowager ) think differently . |
| 23 | JC : Whether he overestimated my capabilities or not , I 'm pleased to have sung Gloriana , and enjoyed later performances conducted by my dear friend Reggie on the Covent Garden tour and during a visit to Rhodesia [ Zimbabwe ] for the Rhodes Festival in 1953 . |
| 24 | And how is my dear friend Monsieur Martin ? |
| 25 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 26 | I only heard of what we will call " the-carving-of-mahogany-to-fit-the-cami-knickers " years and years later from my dear friend Bruin Boyce . |
| 27 | I was busy and happy all that time , relying greatly on the help and encouragement of my dear friend Miss Temple . |
| 28 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 29 | It was my dear friend Henry Clerval . |
| 30 | From his digs at 113 Cowley Road , Thomas wrote his first letter to Harry Hooton : ‘ My dear Mr. Hooton , I matriculated today before the Vice-Chancellor of the University , and , in consequence , I am left a little freer of time and heart : for until then , I feared failure in what turned out to be the easy matric. exam. , and worked to the exclusion of almost all else : which is the explanation of time and heart . ’ |