Sentence examples for My stakes from inspiring English sources
If I needed a larger than usual bet placed, I employed the (free) services of my mother, who is now 87, to double my stakes.
Invariably I'd have lost my stake.
"But 12 years ago I put my stake in the ground on Memorial Day to get things started".
"It's time to put my stake in the ground and raise my tent".
But, drawn to the building industry, I sold my stake and started a construction company in 1984.
I eventually sold my stake to Peter, and he sold the whole franchise to Viacom.
I told my assistant, who later became my second wife, 'If I ever lose more than half my stake, close out all my positions.
Two weeks earlier I had doubled my stake, having thought of Mr. Madoff's fund as a safe haven from a nose-diving stock market.
"My stake is probably worth a couple hundred million," if sold today, he said, although he doesn't seem ready to do that just yet.
If they place such an order now, I will be looking to dispose more of my stake before this happens".
Except Didier Drogba, who better score today or I'll be heading over to Stamford Bridge next week to demand that he persoanlly reimburse my stake on the Elephants.
