Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | I claimed it for my own . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 5 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 6 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 7 | I got it for my eighteenth you see . |
| 8 | My dear wife , Lucy , bought me a special phone-attachment — bought it for my last birthday , bless her heart . ’ |
| 9 | He did it for my own good . |