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 . |