Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] my [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must add here that I do not use any ready-made greens as I prefer to mix my own colours : azo yellow light , cadmium yellow medium , and titanium white mixed with my blues for this , with the addition of burnt sienna , yellow ochre and Vandyke brown for the earth colours . |
| 2 | It was at Scarborough that the ball shot between my legs for four at third man and I got : ‘ Pick tha ’ bluddy feet up , Mary Quant . ’ |
| 3 | The blood boiled in my veins for some great adventure . ’ |
| 4 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 5 | I am not able to eat and talk at the same time , so I apologized to my neighbours for this . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been excluded from my children for five months and I am very worried that they are becoming isolated from me , ’ said Allen , 57 , afterwards . |
| 7 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 8 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |