Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't even told the majority of my friends yet . |
| 2 | As far as wrinkles and saggy bits go , the majority of my friends look the same , and I do n't waste five hours on daily maintenance like Cher . |
| 3 | ‘ At some stage , when I stop playing competitively , I will need to make some sort of career decision about where the majority of my energies will go . |
| 4 | That perhaps it 's easier to do in a smaller department , I mean I 've got checkouts , and the majority of my staff are part-time , and I 've only got three full-timers , so it 's quite often the case that at nine thirty , one thirty , five thirty , eight thirty , it 's a case of coming in and then relieving somebody else straight away , you do n't necessarily have the time to spend with them . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of my constituents believe that what they voted for in the referendum on Europe was a single market , not a single currency ? |
| 6 | He climbs back into bed , grabs my breast and nuzzles me in the crook of my neck . |
| 7 | At the prompting of my friends I wrote back and asked them why not ! |
| 8 | It was n't that I disliked , distrusted or in any way doubted the sympathy of my friends . |
| 9 | ‘ My courage is so high that it will uphold the weakness of my body , ’ he declared in a letter to his mother from Dunkirk . |
| 10 | She begins one sentence : ‘ Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life … ’ |
| 11 | This was the way I passed through the remainder of my childhood . |
| 12 | The remainder of my trip includes stops in Hong Kong , Kuala Lumpur , Tokyo and Seoul . |
| 13 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 14 | The remainder of my paper will deal with the extreme contrast between two South American groups , the Shavante and the Piaroa , in their respective valuation of male maturity . |
| 15 | In fact , she continued to look at me a bit strangely during the remainder of my stay in that department ! |
| 16 | The remainder of my time with him was spent picking up tips on desert survival . |
| 17 | I doubt I 'll every do games for the remainder of my time in this school . |
| 18 | When Yeats first laid eyes on Maud Gonne , in 1889 , ‘ the trembling of my life began ’ , he said , ‘ I had never thought to see in a living creature so great beauty … it belonged to famous pictures , to poetry , to some legendary past . ’ |
| 19 | First , the surgeon made a vertical three-inch cut upwards from the base of my palm . |
| 20 | I lie on my side in foetal position , while an extremely competent young doctor administers a local anaesthetic into the base of my spine . |
| 21 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 22 | There 's this fist of flesh at the base of my neck , which the men do n't yet have . |
| 23 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 24 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 25 | Then Emily , following the direction of my gaze , watched the light , or lights , as they swayed through the trees towards us . |
| 26 | I realized that the odd muffled mumbling from the direction of my co-star before our first entrance was the sentence on the business-card . |
| 27 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 28 | The direction of my opponent 's gaze , and Rainbow 's puzzlement , gives me the answer . |
| 29 | All dropping their little words in the direction of my bosses . |
| 30 | The more I thought about it , the shedding of my watch became symbolic , and I rejoiced accordingly . |