Example sentences of "my [noun sg] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my sister was a baby he used to get up in the night to see her . |
| 2 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 3 | My mind 's a blank I 've been in that many different jobs now . |
| 4 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 5 | but I sh I , my opinion is the test we should apply when determining this application surely is , if we were today , nineteen ninety three , preparing a development plan for would we include in the plan this site for development ? |
| 6 | You now standing on my right are the person I left on the bench , and you on my left are someone else , and neither of you can deceive me any longer . " |
| 7 | MY KING is a pepperpot which falls over each time the train brakes . |
| 8 | My father was a gardener who never earned more than two pounds a week , but we always had good vegetables . |
| 9 | My guide was a lady who has built clinics and social centres there , and taught African women how to look after their health . |
| 10 | My guide was an urchin whom I chose |
| 11 | How do you think they would react if I suddenly announced that the new man in my life is the man who ditched my sister five years ago ? ’ |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The most wonderful experience of my life was the day I went into Spain . |
| 13 | The beginning was also a time when I was asked if I , too , would soon let them down ‘ like all the others ’ and when being there was expressed for all by Janet : ‘ I 'm only here because my daughter is the way she is . |
| 14 | The day that battered sundial he offered me for £1,650 finds its way into my garden is the day I wo n't need to work for a living . |
| 15 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 16 | A will in my judgment is a document which must at least purport to contain something which can be described as a testamentary disposition . |
| 17 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 18 | The Stewarts were always and Charlie Stewarts the last of the f Stewarts but they were all great fiddlers there was the Stewarts and er my brother was a fiddler my father , and then Duncans and their pipes . |
| 19 | My mother was a cook who could make the most of three-pennyworth of meat pieces to enrich my father 's vegetables . |
| 20 | Apricot was my mother 's fantasy and my mother was an alcoholic who deserted me . |
| 21 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |