Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 C.Z. style : Mrs Guest ( main picture ) dresses down for a dressed up evening in Adolfo 's chocolate chenille cardigan jacket and sequin striped T-shirt , with cut velvet georgette skirts and splendid pearls .
2 Again , do n't worry if you get slightly different results , as your assumptions may differ from ours ( for instance , we have assumed two sheets , two pillowcases and two towels per guest , changed once for the longer of the two conferences ) .
3 Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together .
4 Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing .
5 This is Quaking Pot , a sinkhole with a stream descending into the depths where passages extend southwards for a third of a mile to a depth measured as 467 feet .
6 When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students .
7 May we search consistently for the best in other people .
8 I do hope you and Per and the girls are well , and that work is going satisfactorily for the two of you and studies likewise for them .
9 Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival .
10 Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope .
11 ‘ I pay enough for the poor with my taxes , ’ he said , ‘ so why should n't I be able to make use of them in my work ?
12 It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required .
13 For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley .
14 Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull .
15 But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul .
16 The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives .
17 Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it .
18 Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations .
19 His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler .
20 He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request .
21 It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins .
22 Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise .
23 It would turn out for the best in the end ; it must .
24 Mushtaq Ahmed held out for an hour-and-a-half for 11 , standing by Malik while the biggest stand of the innings — 64 — was constructed .
25 Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final .
26 We pray too for the homeless of our nation , and pray for a way out from the spiral of poverty and deprivation that confronts many today .
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