Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 2 | You were always my star student … |
| 3 | ‘ You were always my woman from the moment I saw you . ’ |
| 4 | it were partially my blame you know . |
| 5 | And it was mostly my fault that this happened . |
| 6 | ‘ He did n't seem to know where the hotel entrance was so my husband pulled over and pointed it out to him . |
| 7 | Though he never forgave me , or my mother for having helped me , both into his world and out of it , he was sufficiently my father to let sleeping dogs lie . |
| 8 | That was basically my argument . |
| 9 | ‘ He described the person he saw and it was obviously my father . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |
| 11 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 12 | And anyway , it was entirely my fault . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Last night , ’ he snapped , ‘ was entirely my fault . |
| 14 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 15 | Ember was only my admission price . |
| 16 | I realised it was only my ego wanting to control this thing , and that it was n't a natural evolutionary step as I 'd told myself . |
| 17 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 18 | ‘ It was only my duty , Li Shai Tung . ’ |
| 19 | He used to drill it in us that he was n't , he was only my father 's stepfather . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , that was exactly my reaction when I first saw this set announced . |
| 21 | And that was exactly my remedy for him earlier this year when , face down on a bench in Augusta 's locker-room , Olazabal shielded the grief of failure in the US Masters . |
| 22 | The same dilating and contracting principle informs both novels , a first-person narrator who moves between ‘ we all thought ’ and ‘ it was just my hunch ’ , though the swing is greater in The Possessed and its figuration much more complex . |
| 23 | ‘ It was just my presence that tarnished the fairy-tale for you ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Hummingbird ’ was just my name — and the name of one of the animals in the Book of Remembering . |
| 25 | Well it depends how you want to deal with it , I mean erm , this , the , the , the I think it was just my idea last year of , of sort of erm sharing some of the load I think at that point and hoping that someone could perhaps take over , erm , this just says the following should be elected , A , Chair , B , Secretary and C , Treasurer , but erm |
| 26 | ‘ But she was just my secretary , ’ Julius said with a frown . |
| 27 | It was just my luck to have bags made of light nylon , weighing in at ten kilos in total . |
| 28 | Princess Anne smiled at me as she went by , or Perhaps it was just my imagination . |
| 29 | At first I thought it was just my imagination . |
| 30 | No , it was just my imagination running riot . |