Example sentences of "and my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seventeen weeks and my total gain is seven pounds , which is on target . ’ |
| 2 | They were placed in an 8 gallon ( 36l ) tank with some plant cover and my normal tap water of pH 7.8 , GH 450ppm and a temperature of 76° F ( 24° C ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was the contrast between this creature and my normal self . |
| 4 | Neither John nor Ruth have authority over me , even though my Chinese cooking and my financial affairs will prosper if I follow their advice rather than trust my own judgment . |
| 5 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 6 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 7 | I have taken and passed the IAM test , and have finally put paid to any more irritating jokes about female from my husband and my four sons . |
| 8 | Pity they could n't actually have joined us because I was last there on a Monday night and my four friends and I swelled the numbers beyond double figures . |
| 9 | My granny could speak it well and my great granny she could speak it and read it . |
| 10 | ‘ I have never lived in a place where the past was so alive , and my great predecessors seemed like daily companions . ’ |
| 11 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 12 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 13 | And my grandfather and my great grandfather , they were millers you see ? |
| 14 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 15 | And my grandfather and my great grandfather . |
| 16 | And my brother and my grandfather used to and my great grandfather they all took helped on the loch you see . |
| 17 | And my great grandfather he was a bookbinder . |
| 18 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 19 | Roberto blinks and smiles , then picks up the novel and my small dictionary and balances them one in each hand . |
| 20 | Some I 've known well , some I 've seduced against their better nature and my better nature , two I 've even married . |
| 21 | I sit with my arms wrapped around the chrome railing and my bare heels gripping the sides . |
| 22 | I detailed my education , A Level results , the particulars of my brothers and sisters , everything that I had done while in the Territorial Army and my minimal brush with the law . |
| 23 | … and my right-hand Moderatus controls a power-fist for close quarter work , for scooping and crushing those miniscule Marines whose explosive bolts will be like stings … |
| 24 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 25 | you 're not only hurting me and my present wife and my two children , you are also hurting my ex-wife and my son . |
| 26 | And my present venture is going strong . ’ |
| 27 | The species also exhibited a character trait which was familiar to Gustave : ‘ I am , in both my physical and my mental activity , like the dromedary , which it is very hard to get going and very hard , once it is going , to stop ; continuity is what I need , whether of rest or of motion . ’ |
| 28 | My throat was dry , and my swollen tongue felt like sandpaper . |
| 29 | Some day John , you , me and my once-blonde head of hair are destined to meet … |
| 30 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |