Example sentences of "my [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it did n't take me long When you 're finished , tell me what you think my profit was for the day . |
| 32 | But my doctor was under the procession , oh yo you 've you 've plenty of time yet , you 've years to come because of all this idea of how much it was going to cost to go on to do other |
| 33 | ROS : My hand was on the floor ! |
| 34 | And my grandfather was on the jury when , Mary was hanged , was you ken convicted . |
| 35 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 36 | ‘ My dad was in the reserves here for a season but his career was finished by an injury , ’ said Watson . |
| 37 | This was the Hurlingham Club end of the court , and my patrol was along the front of the court , up Daisy Lane , to the junction with Fulham Palace Road , past the ‘ local ’ Six Bells , past the side of the Court , along the riverside back to base . |
| 38 | And as I went on not getting jobs , I felt my credibility was on the line . |
| 39 | Went in there and went and got dressed so Mary was up then so when I got back downstairs the er breakfast , my breakfast was on the table . |
| 40 | My master was in the habit , when he was particularly busy with his scientific work , of writing orders on pieces of paper and leaving them on the stairs . |
| 41 | My contribution was on the lines that having seen so many birds passing through Shetland on migration , I would love to follow them to their breeding-grounds in northern Scandinavia . |
| 42 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 43 | But by then various other children were misbehaving too , so I sent them out , and suddenly I realized that half of my class was outside the door having a whale of a time ! |
| 44 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 45 | My arm was along the top of the back seat and I felt Barnes 's head fall back . |
| 46 | My interest was in the players who had been forgotten — I simply wanted to know what had happened to people , ’ he said . |
| 47 | So I said , My brother was in the army then and my father was there on his own , so I asked him , I said , Can we put them in the workshop ? |
| 48 | Well my brother was in the Artillery and I thought well it be nice if I can get with him but that did n't work out that way . |
| 49 | ‘ Even though my mother was on the school committee she could n't convince them . ’ |
| 50 | MV Yes , first of all because my mother was in the United States and , after the early 1960s , we were relatively free to travel . |
| 51 | ‘ You were gentle , warm and willing but my mother was in the house . |