Example sentences of "my [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I can not think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain . |
| 32 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 33 | This backs up my point of Eddie clearly explaining his views without the subtleness of speech to an ‘ involved ’ member of the play . |
| 34 | It was my jealousy at work again , of course , ’ he freely admitted . |
| 35 | ‘ I have enjoyed my years at Filmhouse immensely , knowing what we do makes an invaluable contribution to the cultural life of the city . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 37 | Perhaps I 'd better introduce my sort of position here . |
| 38 | ‘ I steal most of my ideas for style directly from the Perry Boys of Salford . |
| 39 | " He will be my husband in name only and he knows I 'm in love with you . |
| 40 | ‘ If I could have got my nose in front again maybe I could have twisted it round but it was n't to be . ’ |
| 41 | My grounding in cancer therefore was thin . |
| 42 | I 've also got ta put my German onto tape tomorrow . |
| 43 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 44 | Packages of that rare onion-skin typing paper which made my erasures of mistypings so easy came from your mother , who also sent you boxes of drugs , chiefly Dexedrine , those shocking-pink amphetamines which , I later discovered , are bad for the heart . |
| 45 | Breakfast was a cup of coffee and I then went off to keep my appointment with Mrs Long . |
| 46 | I 'll be at my flat in Valletta tonight . ’ |
| 47 | And my offer of help still stands for Wendy |
| 48 | I felt a , a degree of obligation because of my commitment with Johnstown now |
| 49 | I therefore extended my area of search slightly and as I did this out popped one of the shop tokens illustrated . |
| 50 | Recording with the A4 connected direct to the mixer again produced good results , but my comments on tone still stand . |
| 51 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 52 | ‘ And my lord of Eu also . |
| 53 | ‘ I was courteously received at the Guildhall , but found , to my chagrin , my lord of Gloucester already ensconced in the chair of state . |
| 54 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 55 | My claim to fame nowadays is that I am one of the seven people who did not vote for world peace . |
| 56 | For a flinty second I see a smile in his eyes , he obviously sees my frame of mind clearly . |
| 57 | I found my own apprehension of form and my sense of humour very much the same as masons of around four hundred years before . |
| 58 | And I ca n't live my life with family now and have children without getting hassle from them . |
| 59 | Personally , what I wanted was to spend the rest of my life in Moscow together with my collection of icons . |
| 60 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |