Example sentences of "my [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Joe and Biddy became a little more cheerful , discussing my possible plans for the future , I became more miserable . |
| 2 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 3 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 4 | My specialised equipment for the powder has always been a monoski . |
| 5 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 6 | I thank my hon. Friend for the Government 's efforts to reduce the pressure on drift netting in the North sea , which will have a good impact on salmon fishing in Scotland . |
| 7 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the kind remarks at the beginning of his question . |
| 8 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 9 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the realistic way in which he faces the problem . |
| 10 | Ards were the form side when the Cup kicked off in January and my dark horses for the final . |
| 11 | ‘ They are my outside tip for the title . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My outside bet for the job was suggested to me by Steve Hodge shortly before I left Forest , ’ writes Chapman . |
| 13 | In a statement on Austrian television he said : " After weighing the interests of our republic , the experiences of the past years , and also my personal plans for the future , I have decided not to offer my candidacy for re-election . " |
| 14 | When appropriate , it is gently suggested to the organisers that they should themselves donate an agreed percentage of their takings to my chosen charity for the year . |
| 15 | Judging by the amount of Kodak film expended by watching tourists in the seconds it took the train to cross the viaduct , I was alone in my seething contempt for the caviar wagon . |
| 16 | PAMELA : [ generously ] I must be highly unworthy not to forgo all my little resentments for the sake of so much goodness to myself . |
| 17 | As I escorted him , none too gently , to the door , I thanked my lucky stars for the hours of self-defence training that I had undergone , at my father 's insistence , from the age of twelve onwards . |
| 18 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 19 | Try it as a supplement to Mackerras and the Vienna Philharmonic ( mid-price Decca ) , my long-standing recommendation for the two big works . |
| 20 | I 'm going to do my good deed for the day . |
| 21 | My key word for the next three days is born here out of a conversation with the increasingly vocal and 45-degree angled Fyfe . |
| 22 | Please accept my sincere wishes for the future . |
| 23 | And that 's my Italian name for the time being , let's now hear let's now see how Colin will do with er the Pisa players down at Lane , Colin it 's all yours . |
| 24 | In the morning , I paid my disdainful landlady for the use of my room for the rest of the day . |
| 25 | My first tip for the wise traveller is pack as many old newspapers as you can , up to the maximum permitted weight . |
| 26 | Klemperer would still be my first choice for the Pastoral . |
| 27 | My first choice for the source of this problem was water conditions . |
| 28 | ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal . |
| 29 | TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME . |
| 30 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |