Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed a period for the next 18 months where my family , having joined me from Yorkshire , came up to Scotland . |
| 2 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 3 | He had a lot of worries because my daughter has been very very ill , and er he was really worried about my daughter , but otherwise he was okay . |
| 4 | Oh I 'm not wearing my trainers because my feet stink in 'em |
| 5 | ‘ I used to get up very early and go for walks while my aunt was still asleep , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 6 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 7 | The Fat Controller 's words rung once more in my ears as my rollerskate of a car caromed up the A22 to London . |
| 8 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 9 | Familiar smells rose above the ever-present odour of the nearby sewage farm , and tears came into my eyes as my nostrils sniffed out stale liniment , old Bovril and the lingering aroma of Dave Doyle 's feet . |
| 10 | In my homeless state , I listened to these independent old ladies and vowed to remember both tactics when my time came . |
| 11 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 12 | I think I have changed machines more times than my husband has changed cars ! |
| 13 | So you see , though I would n't dream of advising you how to arrange a bouquet , there are plenty of other areas where my experience could be of help . ’ |
| 14 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 15 | We 've had no trouble with deliveries because my husband brings the stuff in at five o'clock in the morning . |
| 16 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 17 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 18 | This is no meat and bone corpse , this is another statue , another memento mori if my suspicions are correct . |
| 19 | But , like most mothers , I did n't take much notice of the dangers until my son , at about 18 months old , nibbled a poisonous plant . |
| 20 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
| 21 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
| 22 | And at her puzzled expression , ‘ For looking after the dogs while my housekeeper was away . |
| 23 | But what I thought and what I believed had been moving further and further apart in the weeks since my father had died . |
| 24 | and that a week before it happened , what 's happened to her , cos she do n't hear from her , and she said you know , I , it 's been twenty five years since my mum died Anne , she said and if I did n't make a life , |
| 25 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 26 | He 's lived content enough these eight years since my mother died . ’ |
| 27 | She lived in a first-floor council flat with her husband , Alex , who was admitted to hospital as an emergency with a gangrenous left foot three weeks after my visits began . |
| 28 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 29 | But in 1888 , two years after my father was born , the newly constituted county councils were created and Oxfordshire was systematically governed for the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ Take these grains as my blessing , and may your days be as bright and continuous as a garland of flowers . ’ |