Example sentences of "for my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only a week after the start of what was almost a revolutionary service — the cost : 1d for my eldest sister who was fourteen and half price or ½d for my other sister and myself . |
| 2 | It clearly worked for my Russian neighbour , who turned to me with tears in her eyes after the chorus 's outfront plea at the end of the Streltsy scene and said , ‘ this is about us , now ’ . |
| 3 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 4 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 5 | A gentle step into a short sling and then the real miracle , a tiny hole , just right for my ancient ladle handle , revived from the days when Drummond briefly made them almost respectable . |
| 6 | My idea was partly to make sure of a good time , as I have always had there , and partly to set the tone for my future articles . |
| 7 | " Only my deep devotion to you sir , and a thought for my future acceptance at Court , prevents me from repaying the compliment . " |
| 8 | Knocking around the university , and living a little on my wits , I also learned , in the student press , something of practical value for my future career and something of the university of life . |
| 9 | It has been very good experience for my future career . ’ |
| 10 | I shall be glad to receive the instructions of the Board as to the present case and for my future guidance . ’ |
| 11 | For my selfish freedom , my lovely freedom ? |
| 12 | It will not even pass through their minds that I spent so much trouble and thought on choosing the right disease or the most just punishment for my fictional character . |
| 13 | As the Member of Parliament for my former constituency , I represented the town of Troon , a very Tory town that had more millionaires per head of population than any other area in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 15 | And him with nothing to his name if it were n't for my late mistress ! ’ |
| 16 | For my late grandmother , this was nothing more than an amusing game . |
| 17 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
| 18 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 19 | The last number , in which there was no room for my long article ( which in any case formed part of a backlog ) appeared in January 1939 . |
| 20 | For my twentieth century British Design retrospective exhibition , he lent me , with a good deal of fussing and commotion , his last remaining ‘ Heartsease ’ cup and saucer , a Wedgwood design of the early 1950s . |
| 21 | ( As for my other questions : a pot of the jam could indeed have survived until now , but would almost certainly have turned brown , unless kept completely sealed in a dry , airy , pitch-dark room . ) |
| 22 | This was only a week after the start of what was almost a revolutionary service — the cost : 1d for my eldest sister who was fourteen and half price or ½d for my other sister and myself . |
| 23 | Thank you for the bouquet of flowers sent to me on behalf of all our local branch AND Thank you for my other flowers later , ‘ when maybe I needed them even more ! ’ |
| 24 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 25 | I prayed a little and wept for my dear father , and for myself , my unhappy passion . |
| 26 | In fact , when I joined the party in 1967 , I was charged six shillings for my annual subscription . |
| 27 | see you guys in a forthnight when i will be at white hart lane for my annual trip to england … ( anyone know of any good health club with hidden cameras where they can shoot my ‘ beatiful ’ body ? ; - ) he , he ) |
| 28 | In other words , the reason for my coy mistress 's quaint sense of honour was nothing more nor less than financial prudence . |
| 29 | I saw Sam sit up and ease the pressure , and copied him immediately , none too soon for my taxed muscles and speed-starved lungs . |
| 30 | For my weary head . |