Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 2 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 3 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 4 | She squirmed around for a better view of it . |
| 5 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 6 | Wallace Mercer holding out for a better offer . |
| 7 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 8 | The crowd pressed round for a better view . |
| 9 | With Amstrad shares edging ahead to 29p , just 1p below the offer price , analysts were expecting shareholders to hold out for a better offer . |
| 10 | All I can tell you is that much will change , rapidly and dramatically , and that once you get over the shock you 'll discover everything has worked out for the better . |
| 11 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 12 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 13 | This brought a lot of laughter and people on the rim of the crowd pushed forward for a better look , squeezing the inside circle until there was no room left for fighting , though Paddy had managed to free himself . |