Example sentences of "[be] my [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
2 | ‘ Aha , but if you are my enemies you 'll know about that . |
3 | Faldo said : ‘ When you are my height you have a tendency to go down too far on the ball and that is what I was doing . |
4 | ‘ If that had been my purpose I would not have tended your wound , ’ she faltered , hoping he could n't hear the tremor in her voice . |
5 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
6 | She 's always been my mother I 've hated or been ashamed of . |
7 | He would be my pick I must say , of them He 's he 's |
8 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
9 | Erm well not as such as a songwriter , I mean I do that yes but I 'm my occupation I 'm a self-employed window cleaner . |
10 | As for them being my mates they 're not . |
11 | as you 're being my mum you did n't keep us very long . |
12 | She said she 's great being my teacher she said for my little ones . |
13 | Alternatively Vox could of course use a full width string tree on the headstock side of the nut , but if it were my decision I 'd opt for altering the machinehead ; it 's a lot neater and keeps the headstock looking authentic . |
14 | Were my beliefs my own or were they merely the product of my culture , my country , my education or a legacy from my parents ? |
15 | But when you were My Princess I could not bear to imagine you stained by me . |
16 | Do n't you think she 's supposed to be in cos if she were my daughter I 'd slap her fucking daft . |
17 | ‘ When my mother died the only persons to whom I owed duty were my lord who had followed the cross , and Marian , my lord 's daughter . |
18 | But if you were my son I would n't let you stay there one night on your own . |
19 | This is my home you 're calling . |
20 | This is my milk I get out of the fridge |
21 | mummy , ask daddy which is my bouquet I 'll have it now . |
22 | But it is Lily Greenwood , shopkeeper 's daughter , it is my wedding which will not take place . |
23 | The source , when they find it , is my swimfeeder which I have been casting and retrieving quite frequently since those initial handfuls . |
24 | Well that 's as far as I want to go with this , this particular topic , erm as is my practice I 'm ending now so that we can have questions . |
25 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
26 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
27 | The book of his that still nourishes my inner spirit is My God My Glory , published by SPCK in 1954 . |
28 | ‘ I know 't is my brother you really wish to see — just as I know I must call you my lady Anne ! ’ |
29 | I realise from his point of view his company would be a quarter of a million better off if they could prove it should never have been paid in the first place , but … it is my mother he was talking about dammit ! ’ |
30 | ‘ It is my view they need an era of increased certainty which can now be built on the foundation of recent reform decisions and on which they can , with far more confidence than has been the case in the past , base and plan their futures . ’ |