Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] of my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 2 | ‘ I hold you responsible , Master Shallot , you and Master Daunbey , for the return of my book from Abbe Gerard . |
| 3 | The exactitude and measure of structural engineering has been indispensable for the development of my work . |
| 4 | What a strange feeling to be leaving Gateshead , my home for the whole of my childhood ! |
| 5 | The statistical expansion of recorded crimes and a success largely determined by detection rates support the inevitable institutional contention that more control is a necessity , and has been a corner-stone in police ideology for the whole of my service . |
| 6 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 7 | It 's funny , but I seem to have known that little habit for the whole of my life already . |
| 8 | ‘ I know of Mrs Stringer 's excellent work for pensioners and I am sure that she will be a fine ambassador for British pensioners and for the whole of my Cleveland and Yorkshire North constituency . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , QP has been discussing the Accommodation Problem for the whole of my lifetime . |
| 10 | So we got ourselves an Ordnance Survey map for the year of my birth and were able to prove that houses had indeed existed there , ’ he said . |
| 11 | This was not all : " And for the residue of my Thirdd parte of goods Remayning unbequeathed be yt moore or lesse My will and mynde ys that it shall remayne and bee for and towards the maynetenance of an usher to teache under the Scholemaster of Stockport for ever . |
| 12 | Pity for myself , for the dislocation of my words , of the edifice carefully constructed to bury pain . |
| 13 | I Jordan de Blossevilla give in free alms to God and St Pancras and the monks … for the welfare of my soul and of my ancestors and successors a portion of my land in Bevenden lying by my well on the south side containing 4 perches in length and 2 in breadth ; to hold in tree alms , with a tree way of going in and out with the easement of drawing water in any well . |
| 14 | were you present when he defined for the benefit of my Lord and the jury , what was meant by management charges in that sentence |
| 15 | I recently set up a new tank , and used a large piece of bogwood , for the benefit of my plecs . |
| 16 | I doubt I 'll every do games for the remainder of my time in this school . |
| 17 | Even if this wo n't always happen , it will certainly happen often enough for the range of my knowledge to be considerably reduced , and this itself is some sort of an objection . |
| 18 | It was the first meeting in nine years — for the day of my father 's funeral does n't really count . |
| 19 | Th this impression that I got or er erm that incident at school , played such a big part in my life after that , I was mortally embarrassed for the rest of my school life . |
| 20 | This meant I had to get hay from the top barn for the rest of my cattle , which were still outside . |
| 21 | ‘ At 42 , with seven children , I had decided that the Goodrich Company would probably be my ‘ home ’ for the rest of my working life . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 23 | If I plead guilty to that , I thought , I 'll end up in the nick for the rest of my life . |
| 24 | To me it is a worthwhile occupation and one which I am convinced will stand me in good stead for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 25 | But the memory of those sacred bones remained engraved upon my memory for the rest of my life . |
| 26 | The immigrant ship to South Africa , and all that followed , was still in the womb of time ; but at that moment I resolved that though I would grieve for Leslie for the rest of my life , I would yet to go forward , lighting my way by the torch of the incandescent spirit . |
| 27 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 28 | The copy of the tune ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ that exists in my brain will last only for the rest of my life . |
| 29 | Even after I was married and had children , and had travelled extensively in Africa and North America , I still used to wake up sometimes sweating in fear , convinced that I was still in the Waaf and for some mysterious reason unable to obtain my release , but was condemned to remain in the Force for the rest of my life . |
| 30 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |