Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 2 | My story was about a girl who finds a bedraggled kitten who is really a king . |
| 3 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 4 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 5 | I 'm sitting there , my foot was near the toilet , all you see was this big claws come out digging into my toe there 's me aargh ! you stupid She 's mad ! |
| 6 | There 'd be just us two , see cos all the others they was out , my sister was on the round |
| 7 | My basement was like a swimming pool . |
| 8 | My jaw was on the carriage floor the first time I took the train to Mallaig . |
| 9 | My apprenticeship was in a shop for a year working and adapting and changing and getting an understanding of it all . |
| 10 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 11 | My mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed . |
| 12 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 13 | My car was in the air , flying … |
| 14 | My cell was on the ground floor — slightly below the level of the ground , in fact , so that the window had afforded me , on occasion , a view of a warder 's waist , belt , keys , and truncheon , as he marched by . |
| 15 | My body was in the dining-room . |
| 16 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 17 | Mm , I came to Harlow with my parents , when my husband was in the Air Force |
| 18 | My back was to the wind which whistled coldly in the wire frame of my spectacles and cracked the loose folds of my robe . |
| 19 | I learned to use humour against violence ; when my back was against the wall and the bullies were bearing down , some inner voice would lash out with wit enough to take the wind from the sails of my antagonists . |
| 20 | I hit the door handle and did a dip and shuffle so that my head was below the knife slash arc and made an undignified but unscathed exit , taking the keys with me . |
| 21 | My name was on the label . |
| 22 | COCOA CHANEL : ’ Wish my name was on the label , darling ’ ! |
| 23 | My wife was of no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes . |
| 24 | My wife was in the bathroom . ’ |
| 25 | My flat was under an inch of water and I had to move things upstairs . |
| 26 | That time my father was on the deck giving a dramatic blow by blow account of Dunkirk , which was overheard by a family from Stoke-on-Trent who promptly dived for their life jackets . |
| 27 | Later , we learned my father was on the plane . |
| 28 | ‘ When my father was at the camp at Spittal , another Ukrainian looked after him . |
| 29 | ‘ My father was in a camp at the end of the war , ’ Lucy said . |
| 30 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |