Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 2 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 5 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler . |
| 10 | We would hate to see him invite his mother to a similar jaunt , even for the best of motives . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These wispy air plants are attracting a growing band of admirers too … sometimes for the strangest of reasons : |