Example sentences of "that be my " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We are both aware , I dare say , that were my royal lord with me now , I would not have been brought to such a pass .
2 Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there
3 It is the last question that is my theme , because that is where the spotlight currently falls .
4 The jangling , chipped mobile that is my window of vision makes thought very tiring .
5 What I remember of that night resembles the memory of a dream : limbs twined round my own , and a loud , throbbing pounding noise that is my heart drumming in my ears , and a huge mouth like a scarlet flower fastened on to my mouth and my neck and my ears , and hands coiling around me and an immense and powerful heat spreading all over my body .
6 It is my social catalyst , a lump of oil by which to lubricate the scenario that is my home , clamorous , everchanging , unhumble .
7 ‘ I 'm afraid that 's my fault , ’ he confessed .
8 ‘ I 'm a football man , and I 'm working with footballers at the moment that 's my job . ’
9 I decided that we should come here first — to the house that was my parents ’ summer retreat , near that of my aunt , uncle and cousin .
10 I would imagine the ball — it had this intense whiteness and a sort of vast , perpetual unburning non-consuming heat — rolling over the quilt of flesh that was my inside .
11 When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world .
12 ‘ In a way that was my fault .
13 And er I did n't have a lot to do with roads or anything like that or education , it was mainly welfare that was my , the , the
14 Your aunt had not the soul to discern the matchless spirit that was my mother 's . ’
15 And all the lies that I told you were to try to escape the lie that was my life .
16 Yes , I 'm afraid that was my fault .
17 Yes sorry that was my my mistake .
18 Oh sorry that was my last
19 I used to walk along there to see these rabbits I think the name was and they , it was a barber 's shop that had got these sold all sorts of pet things and that I used to , then I used to come home that was my Saturday morning , but I always used to go in up to the news line .
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