Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of my [noun pl] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | At the prompting of my friends I wrote back and asked them why not ! |
| 6 | It was n't that I disliked , distrusted or in any way doubted the sympathy of my friends . |
| 7 | All dropping their little words in the direction of my bosses . |
| 8 | CAN I count on the support of my friends and family ? |
| 9 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 10 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 11 | ‘ Lord , make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is … |
| 12 | My big problem was that all my files , containing the text of my books , articles , notes and so on were on discs of the wrong size to run of any other computer — without expensive conversion . |
| 13 | Like Claudia , I have an interest in the NEC show , and it 's time I checked on the progress of my entries . ’ |
| 14 | The chairman of my lawyers and the senior partner of Scotland ‘ s biggest firm are both profoundly shocked I did not get a look in recently . |
| 15 | Something is troubling the curly-haired boy I 'm playing with in the backyard of my grandparents ' house . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been the experience of my chums that offspring break up marriages . |
| 17 | There is a close link between my own experience as a learner and the experience of my pupils . |
| 18 | Inside the cradle of my legs |
| 19 | ‘ I wish you would remain under the protection of my men . |
| 20 | No , the presence of my parents at any gig does n't guarantee a feeling of ease , because my mother is very critical of what I do , particularly anything outside a classical genre . |
| 21 | It is not without significance that the sub-title of his autobiography is ‘ The Story of my experiments with Truth ’ , and his whole life might well a interpreted as an attempt to live in accordance with or an existential quest for Truth . |
| 22 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 23 | But I decided then that I would write the story of my children , today , before it is too late . |
| 24 | The thunder helped to camouflage the noise of my steps . |
| 25 | I 'd made it but by the skin of my teeth . |
| 26 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 27 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 28 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 29 | The blood of my forefathers , all men of the sea … tingled at the very thought . ’ |
| 30 | In these two points of preservation of established religion and laws I may ( without vanity ) turn the reproach of my sufferings … into the honour of a kind of martyrdom . |