Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [is] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart is like a singing bird . |
| 2 | She did not say ‘ I feel overwhelming joy ’ but ‘ My heart is like a singing bird ’ which is infinitely more powerful . |
| 3 | ‘ My heart is like a singing bird , ’ rhapsodised Rossetti . |
| 4 | My case is at a friend 's house down The Street . |
| 5 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 6 | My mind is like a stage , with the actors , their costumes , props , scripts and agents all streaming on from stage right . |
| 7 | My teacher 's like a battle tank |
| 8 | Talking about , about image , I mean my body 's like a sumo wrestler without my clothes on |
| 9 | My husband is on a pleasure party in Oxford . |
| 10 | You know , and I mean we we work , you know , it 's like er I mean I have to pay full poll tax and all these type of things too , even though my husband 's on a sort of very er basic sort of wage , and I pay all these things you know . |
| 11 | … my job is as a musician in education , not a teacher of music , … because I feel that one of the essential jobs that we do is bring out the music , or help out the music that 's already there … not imposing musical ideas upon kids , whether they 're classical , traditional , ethnic , Hungarian or whatever . |
| 12 | ‘ My placement is with a textile designer called Hanne Vedel whose work is quite different to mine , ’ says Linda . |
| 13 | My memory is failing , my head 's in a spin — |
| 14 | My head 's in a turmoil ! |
| 15 | ‘ Criticising my age is like a footballer going for the man rather than the ball . |
| 16 | I have need of such comparison , otherwise my writing is of a hothouse type . ’ |
| 17 | My tummy 's in a twist . |
| 18 | You know , they should be pitied , because , there is no way that my life is inside a ring binder . |
| 19 | My vision is of a team pulling together with a common aim and purpose to give glory to God and see His Kingdom extended in our part of the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 20 | Monday after my birthday , the Monday on my birthday , because my birthday 's on a Monday |
| 21 | No , my problem is with a dog . |
| 22 | Does Dr Starkie 's reading of Madame Bovary contain all the responses which I have when I read the book , and then add a whole lot more , so that my reading is in a way pointless ? |
| 23 | I THINK my family is in a mess ! |
| 24 | ‘ My family is like a part of myself , of my body ; if I cut it off I could die . |
| 25 | My hat 's like a flamin , pin-cushion . ’ |
| 26 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
| 27 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |