Example sentences of "[vb infin] my [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's what I said , a hundred and ninety pound , I said if you could do my house for that I 'd be laughing ! |
| 3 | Anyway , it 's not a matter for us I know , that er depending on where you sit in conference you can have difficulty seeing the no smoking signs , but I 've every confidence you 're gon na take my word for this . |
| 4 | ‘ It was wrong what I did to her and I will take my punishment for that . |
| 5 | But , after fifteen years alone on the island , I was afraid , and I did not leave my cave for three days . |
| 6 | I shall go to antenatal classes where I shall nourish my obsession for natural childbirth . |
| 7 | Yet , my feeling is that the spirits could bear my reproaches for bad advice a good deal more easily than men of flesh and blood to whom contusions and abrasions , the common result of argument , are very real sources of anguish . |
| 8 | I ca n't ask my wife for any more at the moment . ’ |