Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun sg] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my name down for pink and blue . |
| 2 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 3 | My grandma told my father off for growing a beard . |
| 4 | ‘ Could I bring my dog in for his booster injection , please ? |
| 5 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 6 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 7 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 8 | Take me out to a patch of waste ground and kick my head in for spreading dissent ? |
| 9 | I 've had my hat on for fully five minutes . " |
| 10 | I 've got my appointment through for the hospital , they rang me on Monday . |
| 11 | As chairman of the committee , the man saddled with the task ‘ Get my son back for me ’ twenty-four days earlier , it fell to Michael Odell . |
| 12 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 13 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 14 | However it might be a good idea to put my name down for the ‘ Understanding Racism ’ Course . |
| 15 | If so I 'd like to put my name down for West Ham 's lot , they 're a bit tasty . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 17 | My hairbrush in there as well Hmm , sort my life out for me . |
| 18 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 19 | I know because I called around early and took my sister out for tea . |
| 20 | I 'll tell my mother off for this . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm a bit tired , to be honest ; I 'm going to get my head down for a while . |
| 22 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 23 | Whatever you do can you pick my coat up for me please ? |
| 24 | We had a month , thought Jay , I 've worked my ass off for this exhibition and you 've done nothing . |
| 25 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 26 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 27 | Well , you can put my name down for it , maybe at Christmas for a couple of days . |
| 28 | I 'll fix that , how you gon na put my fence up for me ? |
| 29 | When I ran my spear in for the kill . ’ |
| 30 | And I had my name down for Sue Ryder 's and the Legion and then a vacancy fell due here |