Example sentences of "my [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One eye yet looks on thee , But with my heart the other eye doth see . |
| 2 | Jessie Young fired my imagination with her tales of warfare , politics and terror at Berwick , and fanned in my heart the first flames of a lifelong fascination with Scotland 's history . |
| 3 | You know , and my story the following morning included road blocks . |
| 4 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 5 | Both the storm and the rarer Leach 's petrel were known to frequent Sula Sgeir , but for my part the all-pervading guano stench made any other odour indistinguishable . |
| 6 | In my case the third effect is that someone shouts ‘ Stop leaning forward ! ’ |
| 7 | In my experience the best setting for groups or individuals is a comfortably furnished room , not too reverberant , with plain , unobtrusive decor and a choice of armchairs and upright chairs which are easily shifted depending on the particular grouping needed for the activity ( one-to-one discussion , four grouped round a table , two rows facing each other , a circle and so on ) . |
| 8 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 9 | In my experience the crucial factor is simply one of opportunity . |
| 10 | In my experience the unexpected response ‘ children ’ causes the questioner to smile in puzzlement and change the subject . |
| 11 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 12 | For my money the 1954 version has more edge to it . |
| 13 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 14 | Oh , on Radio one listening with my mum the other day . |
| 15 | I do n't have at the tip of my fingers the total level of funds managed , but |
| 16 | I can feel again beneath my fingers the vigorous resentment of the caterpillar , the wet , leathery hydrangea leaves , and my mother 's little work-worn hand . |
| 17 | Yeah , that 's my sister the upper |
| 18 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
| 19 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 20 | Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been . |
| 21 | And everybody else seemed to get on it so I thought , oh , just my luck the two five twos had broken down . |
| 22 | Although the political will has been expressed in vigorous , interesting and dramatic terms at international conferences , in my judgement the political will to follow through that policy right across the globe to a degree that will be effective does not exist . |
| 23 | He had his hand on my neck the whole time and kept saying I would get it . |
| 24 | A recent auction sale brought to my mind the fascinating subject of tally sticks , which could make a wonderfully interesting and historically interesting collection . |
| 25 | To my mind the only possibility of solving this problem lies in a large European prospective randomised screening study comparing screening with no screening and using mortality from prostatic cancer as its major end point . |
| 26 | That 's National Savings , and to my mind the only good issue they 've got at the moment , and er once you get with index-linked certificates , they were originally the granny bonds that were launched er in the early er late seventies , early eighties . |
| 27 | Although the coverage is not comprehensive , and many reviews on various aspects of cage hydrocarbon chemistry are available , to my mind the real value of this book lies in the ideas that it generates , the insights into the chemical developments it provides , and the historical connections that it reveals . |
| 28 | I study the swim , working out in my mind the best way of tackling it . |
| 29 | So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee . |
| 30 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |