Example sentences of "[adv] for my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get somewhere for my caddying I felt I had to travel , and I left home for my first tournament in 1951 at St Andrews for the Amateur Championship . |
| 2 | And the earth 's face upward for my inspection . |
| 3 | Most importantly for my health I never go to the bank with the takings any more . |
| 4 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 5 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 6 | I made a full statement and the contents of that I rely on for my defence . ’ |
| 7 | I made a full statement , the contents of which I rely on for my defence . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like to change because I think good actors do alter the way they look and it 's something I plan to work on for my career in the future . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd suffered enough for my mistake . |
| 10 | If it 's good enough for my mates , why should n't it be good enough for me ? ’ |
| 11 | Do you think I 'm well enough for my trip |
| 12 | " It wo n't leave me enough for my yuletide cake . " |
| 13 | Such mistakes occurred frequently enough for my parents to suspect nothing . |
| 14 | And Mercer says one point seven million is n't enough for my share of Hearts . |
| 15 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 16 | ‘ Will that be big enough for my pond ? ’ |
| 17 | One litter a year is quite enough for my needs , and it is in any case very much better to look after one litter properly — it may number eight or a dozen — than to spread the effort ( and the food available ) through a much larger number . |
| 18 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 19 | Well , although spaying is a common operation ( not common enough for my liking ! ) , it 's a very intricate operation and , on a scale of 0–10 for complexity , rates a good five . |
| 20 | And that was n't quick enough for my liking . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I did enough for my purposes . ’ |
| 22 | Either she had the courage of her convictions and stood up to her parents , or she was n't good enough for my brother . ’ |
| 23 | He added : ‘ I have my own little semi and had already saved enough for my retirement . |
| 24 | So much for my afternoon 's painting . |
| 25 | So much for my observation from abroad . |
| 26 | So much for my Saturday . |
| 27 | PAMELA : I fear only for my heart . |
| 28 | Only for my granddaughters mostly . |
| 29 | I wondered , since my mother was principally concerned for my health , and Lili only for my dress , why it was that I had felt secure until my mother arrived . |
| 30 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |