Example sentences of "[conj] my [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening I went to fetch Joe from the village pub , where my sister sometimes allowed him to smoke his pipe and have a beer . |
| 2 | The effects of racism were not restricted to the USA , but were apparent in England too , where my focus now shifts . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that my masters often lent me dignity and subtlety altogether beyond my needs . |
| 4 | Though I am resigning myself as far as possible to the will of God , you will surely find it quite human and natural that my tears almost prevent me from writing … |
| 5 | The first is that my tree really has become an old mate and I really do go out into the garden and hug it . |
| 6 | I was told that my chances now have been greatly reduced of ever having my own family . |
| 7 | I suspect that my parents simply took my word and my active behaviour as proofs of my essential health , and that my non-eating was something I would grow out of and could therefore be ignored . |
| 8 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 9 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 10 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 11 | I find it hard to believe that my paintings now sell in London and many other places ! |
| 12 | Opening this month 's Guitarist , any pleasure I was enjoying to find that my name still ranked highly in the opinion of guitar players and music dealers was destroyed totally by the allegation that — to quote from Tony Iommi 's feature — ‘ unfortunately John ended up in jail and that was the end of that . ’ |
| 13 | It is quite possible , then , that my employer fully expects me to respond to his bantering in a like manner , and considers my failure to do so a form of negligence . |
| 14 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 15 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |
| 16 | The energy management assistance scheme , which will come into place on 1 April , will grant-aid energy efficiency projects for smaller businesses — a new initiative to add to the many others that my Department already runs . |
| 17 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 18 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 19 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that my constituents fully recognise the enormous benefits of inward investment from the United States and elsewhere , from which my constituency has benefited greatly ? |
| 20 | I have sufficient intellectual control so that my bats only last about three days — his would last sometimes as long as three weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ The book is so appealing that my pupils constantly want to know what comes next . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I told you that my brother usually went back to his office on Friday evenings . ’ |
| 23 | As a pair they really were an excellent entry and looking back , I am somewhat amazed that my aunt ever plucked up the courage to parade around the streets . |
| 24 | Except that my anger less controls me , but becomes more an energetic response to injustice that I choose to use as I see fit . |
| 25 | The old Emperor said : ‘ Blessed be God that my son still remembers me . ’ |
| 26 | I was sure that my mother neither understood nor agreed with what Lili was saying , but the mention of these classic works of literature compelled her to reveal at least her knowledge of their existence . |
| 27 | ‘ But apart from the fact that my mother obviously lived here at some time I know nothing at all . ’ |
| 28 | It 's not that my family deliberately kept Fred 's existence a secret . |
| 29 | my Dad does the shopping on his way home from work on a Friday , so my Mum never goes to the supermarket , |
| 30 | Still , the pompous bugger wrote it in Latin so my Dad never understood . |