Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 2 | The petition produced a negative reply from the Home Office in July 1903 , but the episode is noteworthy as one of the innumerable steps taken by the BDDA in its campaign for the better education of deaf and dumb children . |
| 3 | It is offered on a half board basis and the management prides itself on its reputation for the good quality home-cooking . |
| 4 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 5 | Douglas Groom , checkout assistant at Bramingham Park , was delighted to learn that his nomination for the Good Neighbour Scheme had been successful . |
| 6 | He smiles broadly as he describes his nomination for the Best Actor award alongside Nick Nolte for Princes of Tides , as ‘ wonderful , fabulous and an honour . |
| 7 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 8 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
| 9 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 10 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 11 | A home improvement project can change your lifestyle for the better , but if it 's a big project that goes wrong , the result can be a nightmare . |