Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm all embarrassed cos my mac 's all wet with the pee . |
| 2 | ‘ They thought I would n't be quite so embarrassed if my bra was whipped off by some poor old geezer who was past it . |
| 3 | I told myself I 'd have an abortion , although I knew I could never go through with it , and I was so relieved when my period came . |
| 4 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 5 | Nothing could have been less reasonable than my fellow-members when it came to paying their share of the bills . |
| 6 | I try to watch Match of the Day I 'm a keen Liverpool supporter so it 's especially important when my team plays . |
| 7 | Mr Lal 's English was even less fluent than my Hindi , so we chatted , ungrammatically , in his tongue . |
| 8 | I was ever so surprised when my belly started blowing up , it always felt so hard , and it was great to feel my baby moving about inside . |
| 9 | Are half so lovely as my Father 's Field , |
| 10 | I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me . |
| 11 | It is not unfair when my horse loses , even if I was confident , with good reason , that it would win . |
| 12 | Conditions in Addis Ababa and in the country as a whole were already chaotic when my father arrived . |
| 13 | My German is no more advanced than my Portuguese . |
| 14 | ‘ If I did ring he 'd have moved on , anyway , he 's more elusive than my daddy . |
| 15 | If the garden was more exciting than my dwelling , there was a good reason why Alec Reid 's house should have a more lived-in feeling . |
| 16 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 17 | more comfortable than my bed at home . |
| 18 | It is no more partisan than my description of what has happened in the universities . ) |
| 19 | Hands on knees and lights out with a mind buzzing like a bee and the strong conviction that I should be sorting out something more tangible than my mind . |
| 20 | Frankly , if I were n't in such a high-risk position , I 'd want someone a little more cosy as my obstetrician , but Owen is the best for someone like me and at times he can be a dear , so I should n't complain … |
| 21 | That 's more important than my relationship with you . |
| 22 | My MKM was more important than my fears . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never met a woman more beautiful than my wife , ’ he says , ‘ so there has never been the temptation . ’ |
| 24 | I remember the soft background music , the continual chatter , the sight of beautiful women , even more beautiful than my mother , gliding by , emanating mysterious scents , fluttering fans and trailing long draperies with a seductive swish . |
| 25 | My mother told me I was more domesticated than my sisters . |
| 26 | And in China , usually , erm wedding is an important event in the family and an , when I got married I think my parents-in-law wo erm felt erm more excited than my husband and I ! |
| 27 | My typing is a bit rusty , but must be more legible than my hand-writing . |
| 28 | Actually , my middle finger is more sensitive than my index finger , so this is something else you must discover for yourself . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm also angry because my husband is n't working so he will be able to get his legal aid for free . |
| 30 | 1 ) ‘ I 've given up worrying if my toddler does n't eat breakfast or lunch because I know she 'll eat almost as much as her dad for tea . |