Example sentences of "[vb infin] my [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I would give my life for a farthing . |
| 3 | Mind you , I would n't risk my life for a shot in the way he did . |
| 4 | Mind you , I would n't risk my life for a shot in the way he did . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know about you , ’ the reporter was saying as they walked across the cool marble-floored lobby of the large office building and out into the hot , brilliant midday sunshine of Fenchurch Street , ‘ but I 'd practically sell my soul for a really icy cold vodka and tonic . |
| 6 | I have almost no social life , free only when my disabled mother can manage my child for a few hours . |
| 7 | To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree … |
| 8 | His eyes did n't leave my face for a second . |
| 9 | Can you imagine my flat for a whole week to myself ? |
| 10 | When I told him that if we were to be married I would n't ask my father for a penny he … well , he threw me out . ’ |