Example sentences of "[noun pl] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of five 40-minute sittings my portrait is finished . |
| 2 | And many of the objects my ex used to bring home were equally unwelcome and led to as much mess . |
| 3 | I have given lands and privileges to get knight service , and kept my army in the field by contracts my forefathers never countenanced . |
| 4 | The utility of believing that , however many setbacks my cause may suffer , God or the historical process is ultimately on my side , an effectiveness demonstrated throughout history by so many religious and political movements , is only one example of the practical value of delusion . |
| 5 | On the other point about local education authorities My Lords , er it is quite depressing , I was er visiting a local education authority only two weeks ago where they had a five point educational strategy for the authority , one of those points was to oppose at all cost erm parents right to opt out . |
| 6 | Well , erm it 's negatives so X-rays my leg . |
| 7 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 8 | In each of these cases my method will be to discuss the effects the phenomenon has upon public liability companies , then to make comparison with the other forms in which we are interested . |
| 9 | Ropes my knees , lobbing fake boomerangs , |
| 10 | Every few minutes my saddle , a thin nylon sack , would slide alarmingly forwards . |
| 11 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
| 12 | Within minutes my offer was all over the Docherty suite , and I became the source of hysterical laughter , ridicule and abuse . |
| 13 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 14 | After twenty minutes my father was very angry . |
| 15 | These maps my soundings make . |
| 16 | ‘ Hello ? ’ queries my mother-in-law 's voice uncertainly , not knowing how to announce herself in someone else 's house . |
| 17 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 18 | I 've asked for about three hours my contact in Liverpool . |
| 19 | about or either of them want all your pennies my dear . |
| 20 | To help pay off the debts my mother got herself a job . |
| 21 | LABOUR 'S E.Murphy ( HAS March 16 ) typically misrepresents my comments on the recent Willington East by-election . |
| 22 | For generations my family have been staunch Conservatives , but I am afraid my immediate family will no longer support a Government which cares little about animal welfare . |
| 23 | It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 25 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 26 | " These are dangerous times my girl , and we would be perceived as being wealthy . |
| 27 | I once counted how many times my daughter Emma said , ‘ Mummy , I want some orange juice ’ . |
| 28 | But there 's still this stigma because we 're not married and I do n't wha , I do n't really know how to explain it but I feel that at times my daughter is being victimized to a certain degree because we 're not married . |
| 29 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 30 | At other times my master , tired by the reticence of Agrippa and the others , continued his absorption with alchemy . |