Example sentences of "[pron] for my " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing here for the average tourist , nothing for my friends Jim and Mary , who go off every year on a package tour . |
| 2 | Disappointingly , the operation did nothing for my legs . |
| 3 | This does nothing for my ego . |
| 4 | When I got upstairs I found Abu Salim , which did nothing for my confidence , |
| 5 | ‘ A black eye and a bloody nose would do nothing for my publicity photos . |
| 6 | And there was nothing for my father had a few drinks you know and he 'd come home and he he 'd just come he 'd he 'd b be whistling coming up the street you know . |
| 7 | I can assure you that did less than nothing for my morale at the time . |
| 8 | And the long socks do nothing for my legs . |
| 9 | For example , I have never received a personal letter following my stay to thank me for my custom . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The line ‘ women only like me for my mind ’ is clever … |
| 12 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 13 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 14 | I said , ‘ You asked me for my knowledge of these people . |
| 15 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 16 | ‘ They ignored this question , and aggressively asked me for my name , address and my employer 's name . |
| 17 | The most beautiful moment was when she asked me for my recipe for Pavlova cake . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 19 | After we had drunk the coffee , Kelly said , ‘ Do you notice that I 'm still wearing the blue boots you gave me for my birthday ? |
| 20 | ( thanking me for my congratulations on her beautiful master-piece ) : ‘ It is hopeless the way life has to change , and become less than life . |
| 21 | Know , if you kill me for my fault , I should Have died had I not made it . |
| 22 | A tiff with his nephew was no disqualification in the eyes of Charles II , who disliked William and his religion ; Ken on his return to England was made a chaplain to the King , who would remark ruefully on Sundays , ‘ Now I must go and hear little Ken rebuke me for my sins . ’ |
| 23 | If the military really believes in the justification of its exclusive stance , then let it stick to its guns and prosecute me for my actions . |
| 24 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 25 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 26 | MONDAY 6th OCTOBER X only wanted me for my body I will commit suicide |
| 27 | " He usually asks me for my criticism , " she said to one interviewer . |
| 28 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 29 | But I say ‘ must have ’ without real evidence : he never reproached me for my action . |
| 30 | They 're not getting anything out of me , they 're having to pay me for my body . ’ |