Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard .
2 This was on my 34th birthday last March .
3 This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore .
4 One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker .
5 But that is in my own time and what I do in my own time is up to me . ’
6 I 'll put a I 'll put a circle round the no and there that 's for my own benefit .
7 And that 's including my on-disk compression thing that that erm
8 I often hear from friends in the military business , because that 's near my own sort of work , that the German part of NATO is the only really big and solid part of NATO , as if that military tradition has revived , found itself again .
9 Yes that oh oh That was a l that was in my great grannie 's time that they went there .
10 And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers .
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