Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | When I first met my Working Group I was astonished to discover that they were far more progressive in outlook than the members of the Kingman Committee . |
2 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
3 | I 'll I 'll try and rewrite my erm this is something that is not a problem , every time I write a letter it or write my introductory letter it comes out different , so I 'll try and simplify my introductory letter as well , I think we 'll get a bigger uptake , |
4 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
5 | If , however , like Bilinda from My Bloody Valentine you 're singing tender entreaties to your partner or questioning the nature of love , then you 're saying something universal and good . |
6 | I do n't have to go for examinations at all now , I come under , what 's it , you know my bloody pension it marvels me , I 've been under every ruddy regimental paymaster and , in the , and Scotland I think , I , I at present I 'm with one in Scotland , but eh , mucking about with |
7 | This was a very tense time and to my complete amazement I took 2nd place in the amateur class . |
8 | Unless the clergy want my complete damnation they can ask for no more . |
9 | The 44-year-old Prince lamented the generation gap but joked that ‘ even at my advanced age I can make a muddle ’ . |
10 | on my right side it 's er |
11 | In my hanging position I contorted to watch him , so it seemed like he was tackling a serious overhang . |
12 | My dear Hana he thought . |
13 | I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was , and no one I wished to speak to . |
14 | My dear chap you could n't put them in a work of fiction . |
15 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
16 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
17 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
18 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
19 | ‘ I told my old lady I 'd be home , ’ McQuaid lied as he rose . |
20 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
21 | If anything were to happen to my old dosey I 'm afraid I 'd live out my days in peace . ’ |
22 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
23 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
24 | Knowing my old man he 'd probably fucking turn me in . |
25 | ‘ Well I promised my old man I would take home a feed for him tonight . |
26 | Unlike my old man I did n't go much on pubs , the dogs or cribbage but I still went on supporting West Ham most Saturday afternoons . |
27 | It 's my old sea-chest they want , but I 'll show them ! |
28 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
29 | In all my scientific life I have never seen [ such ] a situation . ’ |
30 | because I used to have when I used to go around these for breakfast I 'd always have an orange juice and my cereal and then my fried breakfast it 's the only time I 'd eat a fried breakfast . |