Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for [art] [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 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 .
4 Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing .
5 So it , it was it turned out for the best .
6 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 .
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