Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That my love for my son has interfered with my passion for truth and justice . |
| 2 | Are you trying to tell me that some of my prisoners have escaped without me noticing ? ’ |
| 3 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of my sight had gone by the time I was five or six but at that age you seem to adjust without realising what 's happening , ’ Julia says . |
| 5 | I can not say whether this manifestation was a product of opium or not but ever after the most excruciating of my opium torments have regularly visited me with his likeness and the haunted corridors of my mind have resounded with his peculiar bombast . |
| 6 | In another letter to a Scottish admirer , she said ‘ I can only say that this bubble of my mind has risen on the mighty stream of a Divine purpose ’ . |
| 7 | Everyone of my age has suffered from the character who insists on having bedroom windows open , for instance , on the grounds that it is a healthy dodge and worthy of all men to be received . |
| 8 | The longer the problem goes on — and many of my patients have suffered for years — the worse it is likely to get . |
| 9 | In the past , when members of my family had dreamt of policemen , it had meant that someone was going to die . |
| 10 | ‘ Several members of my family have lived to a good age . |
| 11 | Some of my theories have fallen to pieces , including the nine-nation European Common Market being the ten-horned beast , with the Vatican , of course , being the tenth state . |
| 12 | Some of my colleagues have suggested to me that this account of the survival value of the god meme begs the question . |
| 13 | Removing the ‘ job weeds ’ from my life has made for a less stressful lifestyle and I actually look forward to every day . |
| 14 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 15 | It was raining harder then ever by now , but could all the water in my excavation have come from above ? |
| 16 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 17 | Unemployment in my constituency has risen by 43 per cent . |