Example sentences of "of my good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well this is one of my better suits for one thing . ’ |
| 2 | With one of my better inspirations . |
| 3 | ‘ Taking up rugby was one of my better decisions , ’ he said . |
| 4 | As it turned out it proved to be one of my better decisions ! |
| 5 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Now , Biddy , ’ I said crossly , ‘ are you jealous of my good luck ? |
| 7 | ‘ You can take it as a pledge of my good faith . ’ |
| 8 | It was hard to leave , too , because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to university with me . |
| 9 | You will meet lots of my good friends . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't want to lose any of my good friends . |
| 11 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 14 | I was n't being good about it any more ; it was as if the effort of getting upstairs had used up the last of my good behaviour . |
| 15 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 16 | As a postscript to this , I can say in all sincerity : ‘ Some of my best friends are Gentiles . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Many of my best friends are undertakers ! ’ |
| 19 | As little as possible , but some of my best friends love it , so it depends on them . |
| 20 | 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 … ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Rachel was one of my best friends from school . ’ |
| 22 | there 's a couple of my best friends |
| 23 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
| 24 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
| 25 | Some of my best friends are civil servants , but what the hell do civil servants know about working in the mining industry ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The eldest was Jimmy , who was one of my best friends . |
| 28 | Yes , yes , well some of my , some of my best friends are sociologists , so I must be careful . |
| 29 | 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 , |
| 30 | She used to be one of my best friends . |