Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler . |