Example sentences of "[conj] my [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that my enthusiasm for the subject material in the above discussion will not be mistaken for any wholehearted support of some sort of postmodern aesthetics or politics . |
| 2 | ‘ I am only sorry that my requests for the Public Accounts Committee to investigate royal travel costs as well as the cost of the royal palaces was not agreed to . ’ |
| 3 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 4 | I have realised that I am no longer a spring chicken by tour standards — 28 in February — and the wrinkles are starting to appear , so , to prolong my career and my enthusiasm for the game , I am cutting down . |
| 5 | Hasty eating and my anxiety for the General 's welfare , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 6 | I have been shown how to make warm clothes for myself and my children for the winter . |
| 7 | My reading was not confined strictly to the syllabus , and my book-list for the period shows that I was prepared to read around it . |
| 8 | In or out of prison I will relentlessly fight my case until my conviction for the murder of Reginald Stevens is finally quashed . |
| 9 | But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy , you 'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back . |
| 10 | ‘ But my form for the South West in the Divisionals must have been better than I thought . |
| 11 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 12 | The intensive care time was the most distressing , though my admiration for the nursing staff was boundless , and so was my gratitude to the surgeon who quite literally saved Michael 's life . |
| 13 | I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it : |