Example sentences of "my [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair 's mostly gone . |
| 2 | I 've no teeth now , and my hair has all fallen out , but I can still think — and remember . |
| 3 | Your last kind blessing to my Pamela has quite melted me . |
| 4 | ‘ My contract 's still got time to run . ’ |
| 5 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 6 | Len said carefully , ‘ When my dad died , he and my mum had n't spoken for three years . |
| 7 | Once or twice my mum has even gone into a light trance , and , though she has n't yet contacted anyone interesting , we have great hopes of her . |
| 8 | My mum has never told me to have a goal . |
| 9 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
| 10 | I can not say that any of my knitting has ever graced the shelves at Harrods , but my crochet has ! |
| 11 | and my teaching has not made them strangers . |
| 12 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 13 | ‘ I think my luck has finally changed , ’ he said happily . |
| 14 | In the interim , as an earnest of the importance that we attach to this matter , my Department has today issued article 14 directions to prevent the county councils from granting permission for the applications for the time being . |
| 15 | My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned . |
| 16 | My Department has recently received a numbe of representations from hon. Members and the general public on matters relating to military low-flying training . |
| 17 | My mind had not adjusted to this new sight , though . |
| 18 | My mind had suddenly switched to my dinner date with the French family . |
| 19 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 20 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 21 | I just remember then being thankful my over-clubbing had n't proved costly and how exhausted I was . |
| 22 | Among the delights my agent had not mentioned , the most interesting pictorial challenge turned out to be the newly finished Chinese Garden — a mediator 's dream , in waterfalls , placid lakes with tranquil reflections , and exotic mandarin houses — on the outskirts of Darling Harbour , on the corner of Harbour Street and Pier Street . |
| 23 | Among the delights my agent had not mentioned , the most interesting pictorial challenge turned out to be the newly-finished Chinese Garden — a meditator 's dream , in waterfalls , placid lakes with tranquil reflections , and exotic mandarin houses — on the outskirts of Darling Harbour , on the corner of Harbour Street and Pier Street . |
| 24 | My visit might have ended there if my car had not run short of petrol on the road south of Nahariya . |
| 25 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 26 | ta ta oh , at least it has n't come to rain again pull Oh my light has n't come on |
| 27 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
| 28 | My roof has no felt on the underside . |
| 29 | My practice has not encountered serious practical problems different from those of other fundholders and it seems to remove some of the difficulties of the existing scheme in that it resolves the problem of what referrals are within the range of services that can be purchased . |
| 30 | " But my attitude has n't changed . |