Example sentences of "my [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , William Baskerville , write this for my sons in the year 1742 . |
| 2 | But my contacts in the trade — I am using three , all very discreet and understanding men — tell me the number of stones involved is very substantial . |
| 3 | ‘ I too have my contacts in the music business , Aurora . |
| 4 | I enjoy having my work and my cases in the national press . |
| 5 | Your words helped sustain my defences in the aftermath of Matthew Sura 's vicious and slovenly attack , from which , I fear , I am still rather reeling . |
| 6 | I had already written to them about you , in guarded terms , and their lack of response to my enthusiasms in the way of friends never discouraged me . |
| 7 | Neither my wins in the European Championships and European Cup nor my two British records had ever made the front page — but the fact that I would n't run in a relay team had . |
| 8 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 9 | I cleaned my teeth in the washbasin , then sat reading until perhaps eleven-thirty . ’ |
| 10 | For my contemporaries in the postgraduate school at Durham in the early 1980s , the inclusion of the scientism of the self ( to use Okely 's phrase ) became part of ‘ doing the business ’ ( to move to the jargon of my contemporaries in the detective departments ) . |
| 11 | For my contemporaries in the postgraduate school at Durham in the early 1980s , the inclusion of the scientism of the self ( to use Okely 's phrase ) became part of ‘ doing the business ’ ( to move to the jargon of my contemporaries in the detective departments ) . |
| 12 | One of my contemporaries in the English Department was , now Professor of Linguistics in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia . |
| 13 | The result , agreed in a hard-hitting threeminute session involving no agents , or even contracts , is that my performances in the coming cricket season have a price on them . |
| 14 | In defence of some of my clients in the national museums and galleries , I should point out that , for example , the Victoria and Albert museum has been able to extend its opening hours . |
| 15 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 16 | From this discussion of London Creole we turn now to look at the London English of my informants in the next chapter . |
| 17 | ‘ Snap out of it — you 're grown up now , ’ said Otley , passing his hands in front of my eyes in the manner of a hypnotist . |
| 18 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 19 | As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock 's trench . |
| 20 | With my ears in the drawer , my teeth in a cup |
| 21 | I told the bloke , I look after that my cars in the garage . |
| 22 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 23 | Instead , I will simply buy more film and , encouraged as any amateur should be by this well-presented book , I will get back to grovelling on my knees in the Oxfordshire hedgerows . |
| 24 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 25 | I rolled on my back , stuck my legs in the air and laughed . |
| 26 | I lay on my back with my legs in the air and pushed . |
| 27 | In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air . |
| 28 | And as for me , I 'm going to stretch my legs in the town , while I can . |
| 29 | My father sits in the living room in front of the television , my brothers in the dining room in silence . |
| 30 | As a uniform constable , my boundaries were very clearly demarcated and my peers in the city centre division set out the parameters of my social reality . |