Example sentences of "it [was/were] the [noun] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the elastic in my trousers . |
| 2 | All this may seem a little behind the times to the modern generation and to feminists , but I recognize that it was the way of my mother 's and father 's world . |
| 3 | It was the beginning of my long road to the Olympic Games in Seoul . |
| 4 | It was the beginning of my disillusionment with the Labour Party . |
| 5 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 6 | It was the colour of my skin . |
| 7 | It was the dream of my life , it was great . |
| 8 | But it was the scene of my first heartbreak . |
| 9 | And certainly it was the case as my understanding of it anyway , is that those l er those routes that had links into Harrogate provided far greater relief than those that did n't have links . |
| 10 | It was the case with my first sexual experience . |
| 11 | Then it was the turn for my own hand to explore the anonymous member beyond the missing brick . |
| 12 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 13 | It was the path from my cottage , and I remembered the little cove called Halfway House , a cove where in any weather a boat might tie up safely and its owner make his way round to Taigh na Tuir . |
| 14 | It was the summer of my father 's death . |
| 15 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 16 | I like to think it was the gun in my bunker that hit it and forced the pilot to turn tail and dump his bombs . |
| 17 | I 'm in no doubt at all that it was the stresses of my nightly responsibilities in front of the camera . |
| 18 | It was the reaction to my answers that interested me most . |
| 19 | On answering the phone I discovered it was the manager of my football team , Bob , to say that due to a waterlogged pitch the game was off . |
| 20 | It was the view from my turret , but lower . |
| 21 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 22 | It was the end of my 1983 season . |
| 23 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose it was the end of my world . ’ |