Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening , quite late , when an old girl friend was staying , I was sitting cross-legged in my Oriental cradle feeling wise and Confucian when my friend could stand it no longer . |
| 2 | I imagined they must have been bold generals like Arsenio and Osvaldo , pathfinders like X. Ray , stalwarts like the Corporal , boys as eager and facile as my woodchucks . |
| 3 | I had another dream that night , less orderly and dramatic than my dream of alchemy , but it felt significant . |
| 4 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 5 | ‘ Once again I bought the suite first and decided to decorate the room around it , this time taking birds and blue as my themes . ’ |