Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 2 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 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 | But Great Malvern was worth visiting , if only for the best one-liner of the conference , from Joan Beck , chief inspector of Doncaster SSD : ‘ Equal opportunities is all very well until someone else gets the job you wanted . ’ |
| 5 | If you are lucky you might get a codex thrown in for a good measure for telecomms application . |
| 6 | There are not many precedents for the same Secretary of State and the same Permanent Secretary serving together for the best part of six years . |
| 7 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | Each month we have a pair of Saucony shoes to give away for the best letter on a running issue . |
| 9 | But you , you sat outside for the best part of quarter of an hour , twenty minutes , cos it was so sunny . |
| 10 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 11 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 12 | They are prepared to pay a little more for a better quality of service . |
| 13 | Have you ever paid a little more for a better seat at the theatre , and thus enjoyed a far more memorable evening ? |
| 14 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 15 | Yeah , then you I know , but John I mean you 'd be up for a good couple of grand if you did stick it out . |
| 16 | ‘ I watch everything I can because I feel this is a tie that could set us up for a good run in Europe , ’ added Creaney . |
| 17 | Comparing notes with an airship enthusiast the other day , I learned that the Falklands campaign might bring the airship back into favour because it can be sent up for a good look at the surroundings , especially at sea . |
| 18 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |
| 19 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 20 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 21 | She squirmed around for a better view of it . |
| 22 | On the other hand there will be a greater onus to shop around for the best home for whatever spare cash you may have . |
| 23 | Unless something is done , dealer margins will continue in free fall and the customers will continue to shop around for the best price in the belief that service is universally lousy , and that 's in nobody 's interest . |
| 24 | It is not a bad idea to say ‘ thank you ’ every now and then for the good things in your life . |
| 25 | ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’ |
| 26 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 27 | ‘ I was making saggars there for a good number of years after the move to Barlaston , where they were used in firing , ’ re recalled . |
| 28 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |