Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My adoptive father was the son of a South Shields shipyard worker ; he had managed to get a job as an office boy . |
| 2 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 3 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 4 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
| 5 | ‘ My elder sister was a pig to me . |
| 6 | My favourite expedition was the one I always made alone , to the farm . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend was a member of the committee . |
| 8 | When my hon. Friend was a Member of the European Parliament she did a tremendous amount of work to promote not only her region , but the concept of regional government for England . |
| 9 | My overall form was a bit scratchy . ’ |
| 10 | My lowest ebb was a seven month spell |
| 11 | My second choice was the entry on " Acquisition of language " . |
| 12 | Even my second throw was a poor one . |
| 13 | My principal inheritance was a justification for any irresponsibility I cared to indulge in thereafter . |
| 14 | My principal reason was a very subjective one : I had , as an undergraduate , met with and remained a firm friend of one of the leading Ibos , Sir Louis Mbanefo , who had been knighted by the British government when he became the Chief Justice of Eastern Nigeria . |
| 15 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 16 | To our philosophy teacher , Professor John Macmurray , I owed the perception that my chosen trade was a treacherous one if what you looked for was strict objectivity . |
| 17 | To my left hand was a small ledge and on it , rather surprisingly , a tortoise appeared . |
| 18 | My previous car was a direct competitor to the Clio , namely the new Rover Metro in 1.4-litre guise , and I ca n't help making comparisons . |
| 19 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 20 | My physical hunger could be quite quickly assuaged , my mental starvation was a different matter . |
| 21 | What bothered me most after my long absence were the forests of TV aerials on even the humblest dwellings . |
| 22 | My primary target was the heat-pain argument , and its conclusion : that heat , like pain , ‘ can not exist but in a mind perceiving it ’ . |
| 23 | My hydroponic life was the only kind with which I was happy , a gypsy trait from my Viking ancestry . |
| 24 | I sometimes think that this , the year of my sixth birthday was the happiest of my life . |
| 25 | I thought to myself , even as it happened , that this winking of my very self-consciousness was a nice expression of the value I represented . |
| 26 | One of the cases which made a deep impression early on in my homoeopathic career was the thirty-two-year-old male patient with the enlarged spleen whose story is presented in Chapter I. Meanwhile I was consistently impressed by the speed with which our surgical patients recovered following operation , and with the fact that very seldom did we have to catheterize our female patients after gynaecological operations . |
| 27 | Former women compositors remembered working mainly with other women but all referred to the men who " carried the formes for us " , or " carried away the type to put in galleys " , though one remarked " my immediate boss was a woman " . |
| 28 | My only protection was a battered trilby and an old raincoat that soon admitted defeat . |
| 29 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 30 | My only reservation was the assumption that sleep would come . |