Example sentences of "[vb infin] my [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My best friend just now will not necessarily stay my friend for ever , although it is possible . |
| 2 | I must explain my ruse for prising so much stuff — good stuff — out of the islanders . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't compare my feeling for her with his ! |
| 4 | Personally I have always agreed with that , but I can not now simply substitute my judgment for that of the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe . |
| 5 | Once completed , the dentist can reassess my mouth for insurance purposes . |
| 6 | " You know I ca n't discuss my work for the Surete with you , " replied his father brusquely . |
| 7 | So we were sitting there , in this horrible place where the ‘ glass of white ’ is even more noxious than the yeoman 's brew , and their selection of Highland malts is less than the finest , and I 'm getting these pancreas-piercing whiffs of other people 's nicotine ( hit me with a gasper , go on , do it to me — I 'll betray my country for a Silk Cut , I 'll betray my friends for a Winston ) when Stuart , with a creepily smug look on his face , suddenly announces , ‘ We 're taking off , you know . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Will you do my back for me ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | Can you do my coat for me . |
| 10 | That 's what I said , a hundred and ninety pound , I said if you could do my house for that I 'd be laughing ! |
| 11 | Anyway , I thought , Liza would do my job for me . |
| 12 | Today , I would give my life for the state of Israel . |
| 13 | I would give my life for you . ’ |
| 14 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I would give my life for a farthing . |
| 15 | ‘ If you will let me live again , Lord , I will give my life for you , ’ she promised . |
| 16 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] I find I can not master my passion for her . |
| 17 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 18 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 19 | ‘ Marriage Guidance , ’ he said , ‘ did n't understand my need for brutally climaxing into tight white bottoms . ’ |
| 20 | He would often go down to the Hare and Hounds at the west end of Hury — it 's gone now of course — but he was a grand man and his scarum ways did not alter my affection for him one bit . |
| 21 | Did you anticipate my potential for perversion . |
| 22 | The ‘ grounds ’ that most interest me are about 6in beneath those once trod by the aristocrats , so I 'm sure the snobbish doctor 's ghost will tolerate my company for an afternoon . |
| 23 | ‘ That fucker , my father-in-law , will ruin my erection for the whole day , ’ he said . |
| 24 | " Will you read my hand for me ? " |
| 25 | You can thank my wife for the date . |
| 26 | My wife and I are very conscious of the very high honour that you have bestowed upon us and I must also thank my Party for proposing , and you all for electing , me to the office of Lord Mayor for the Metropolitan City of . |
| 27 | Nothing my father says can enter my brain for the words already in there screaming : Murdering toad . |
| 28 | Yeah but what he did take my Walkman for though ? |
| 29 | But do n't just take my word for it . |
| 30 | But do n't take my word for it ; this is not a figment of the journalistic imagination . |