Example sentences of "it was my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 2 | It was my leg all right , but somehow detached from me . |
| 3 | " Every other mother has said , well if it was my daughter , I 'd have known . |
| 4 | And while we were , while we were there we had some invitations to , to dine out with well it was my daughter 's and we went and had a meal with them and they were quite taken back by er they lived in this little which originally I had thought was a was a er a poultry house . |
| 5 | About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made . |
| 6 | Real horro , that someone has taken something that you 've bought : because it was my daughter 's first car , it was even worse . |
| 7 | She said well the police were here after eleven last night , that young girl that was killed on Benji Avenue they thought it was my daughter , they 've got all the photos |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , it was my cousin . |
| 9 | ‘ It was my honour , and in a degree the honour of my race , ’ he later reflected . |
| 10 | Thinking it was my dresser I opened the door to find a News of the World journalist standing there . |
| 11 | It was my experience that they took an extremely passive line , waiting to see if the situation would change and the spouse return . |
| 12 | And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely . |
| 13 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 14 | Is , it was my sweep that I was doing so I 'm keeping the money , nobody else can have it . |
| 15 | ‘ It was my advantage . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was my uncle who sent you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you . |
| 18 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
| 19 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 20 | ‘ And it was my plan that has brought you to your heart 's desire . ’ |
| 21 | It was my plan . |
| 22 | ‘ Because up until then I was absolutely positive that I would eventually manage to get out of the marriage , and it was my plan to seek custody as a single person . |
| 23 | It was my plan to get one though . |
| 24 | It was my Maker who offended against me , acting so unfatherly against one who never asked to be born in any unnatural way . |
| 25 | A searching moment indicated that it was my motives rather than her welfare that were under question . |
| 26 | I got out on bail , I think it was my probation officer who rang up . |
| 27 | The stance consisted of a couple of sprouting pegs but little else ; Mick 's home while it was my turn to try to link unlikely sequences of free and aided moves up the next 40 metres . |
| 28 | It was my turn to be concerned . |
| 29 | Then it was my turn — 10 lb 7 oz . |
| 30 | ‘ The combine did well last year — and it was my turn . ’ |