Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 2 | But you , you sat outside for the best part of quarter of an hour , twenty minutes , cos it was so sunny . |
| 3 | May we search consistently for the best in other people . |
| 4 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 5 | Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing . |
| 6 | So it , it was it turned out for the best . |
| 7 | But we 're not content in in the government to let it rest there for the poorest countries , the very poorest countries , even more help is urgently needed . |
| 8 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |