Example sentences of "in my [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 2 | The Bishop however informed him that he had no vacancy for a chaplain — a refusal which Tyndale never forgave : in his Preface to the translation of the Five Books of Moses , where he describes the incident , there is a marginal note , ‘ Room in my Lord 's house for belly-cheer but none to translate the New Testament . ’ |
| 3 | Er I hope that wo n't disturb you or er Sir my comment briefly is I I did indicate in my opening er statement er yesterday , that there is in existence and I do n't wish to make too much of this at this particular enquiry , but you should be aware of a new settlement proposal in the Leeds district , outside the statutorily defined greenbelt . |
| 4 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 5 | Yes , that is correct erm in my experience er both being erm on armed incidents er the adrenalin flow is tremendous , the officers are erm concentrating one hundred and fifty percent on their task in hand and it is very tiring work . |
| 6 | Erm in my experience erm I do n't think so . |
| 7 | Perhaps , though regrettably , they are not seen as a central core of independence which may reside elsewhere-'in my head or in my dreams ' . |
| 8 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 9 | In my neighbour 's garden — Oh ! |
| 10 | Er and we are talking about open countryside outside erm rural settlements and if you look at the wider countryside and that includes in my judgement er the pattern of settlement which is where most people actually do live in in the countryside . |
| 11 | Children have sometimes got personal things to say , like , ‘ We 've got owls in our barn ’ or ‘ My uncle 's got 'em on his farm ’ or ‘ What are they doing in my friend 's shed ? ’ |
| 12 | In my parents ' expectations there was always an element of unspoken threat : you must do this , or else … |
| 13 | Asked where I lived , I replied that I was staying in my parents ' flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 14 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 15 | in my parents ' grave . |
| 16 | Hope it 's still in my parents ' attic somewhere ! |
| 17 | For example , one client told his dealer : " I happened to see an item in my secretary 's Daily Mail . " |
| 18 | In my computer 's ROM , location numbers 64489 , 64490 and 64491 , taken together , contain a particular pattern of contents — 1s and 0s which — when interpreted as instructions , result in the computer 's little loudspeaker uttering a blip sound . |
| 19 | Some of their instructions included reading a spell-book in my witch 's house , which had , we established , a door close to where the children were sitting . |
| 20 | This is surely a babyhood memory , slightly corrupted , of seeing the word ‘ toilets ’ reflected fleetingly in my nurse 's spectacles when we travelled from London to Dover to sail for the continent . |
| 21 | I think I must have known the truth about myself , in some deep part of my mind , when I first read those few pages of your book in my master 's study . |
| 22 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 23 | Mrs Hunt said : ‘ I was soaked in my sister 's blood . |
| 24 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 25 | Several of the backstage staff , including Annie and Jennifer , had bought a space in the Chassidic Hospital in Jerusalem in my Dad 's name and presented me with the certificate . |
| 26 | ‘ In my dad 's quarters , sir , at the moment . |
| 27 | Following in my Dad 's footsteps . |
| 28 | Dahlias were in my dad 's days so |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't believe for one minute I 'd have been the saviour , but I 'd have loved the chance to make a contribution in my country 's hour of need . |
| 30 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |