Example sentences of "my [noun sg] 's [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | My hair 's mostly gone . |
2 | ‘ My contract 's still got time to run . ’ |
3 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
4 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
5 | He says : ‘ I 'm thrilled my dream 's finally come true . ’ |
6 | My grandma 's still got my grandad 's stuff somewhere . ’ |
7 | without asking , it comes up on the er have er , I 'll ask her first hello it 's the G P G engineer love , yeah , er my pager 's just gone off , is it okay to use my telephone just to answer it please ? |
8 | And she said , oh my husband 's just renewed his . |
9 | It sounds , it sounds odd saying , oh my husband 's just renewed his , it makes it sound as if he has n't had a P S V erm licence for a while . |
10 | Oh my tie 's just broken . |
11 | My friend 's just had a go at skiing . |
12 | Oh brilliant I think my gob 's just recovered from that . |
13 | My wife 's just gone America shark fishing . |
14 | Anyhow , my father 's just taken her to the doctor 's , so I thought I 'd give you a ring . |
15 | There 's an apocryphal story about former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , that his opening gambit in chit-chat was often ‘ My grandmother 's just died . ’ |
16 | My shadow 's just arrived . ’ |
17 | She said to me , she said , my mum and , my dad 's just lost his so |
18 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |
19 | My brain 's just died ! |
20 | My son 's just eaten our telephone ! |
21 | My brother 's usually got a pen . |
22 | My Super 's already got his knickers in a twist . ’ |
23 | ‘ My mother 's just gone off with Rupert Campbell-Black , ’ he said . |
24 | I suspect these things are genetic because my mother 's just had a hysterectomy , but I was lucky that the condition had n't developed into anything more serious . |