Example sentences of "[adv] 's [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marinello never had Best 's capacity for drink nor did he share his good fortune when it came to choosing clubs . |
| 2 | AS THE general election campaign gets under way , leading Cleveland councillors marked yesterday 's Vote for Democracy Day by pledging their support for democracy in South Africa . |
| 3 | The superstar is doubly lucky in that a certain aloofness — a concentration on tomorrow 's battle for supremacy — is expected . |
| 4 | The first machines that could be connected to the public telephone networks were introduced in the 1950s , and at this point today 's enthusiasm for fax might have been expected to appear . |
| 5 | In my view , today 's look for jackets is bigger ; shoulders are wide but unaggressively padded . |
| 6 | On the school 's noticeboard , religious notices have been taken over by election literature and copies of the government 's exhortations to take part in today 's vote for parliament as a ‘ religious and political duty ’ . |
| 7 | Well here 's news for IBM — at the present rate , it will have lost 100% of its mainframe sales in five years , almost all of them not to competing IBM products but to competing companies . |
| 8 | Here 's news for parents who find that bringing up children is more tricky than they thought . |
| 9 | At around five , Amiss 's need for sleep triumphed over his good nature and he hurled a paperback in Sunil 's direction . |
| 10 | Significantly , another housewife mentioned the fact that housework is not paid work as a reason for disliking it ; she said she would be happier doing someone else 's housework for pay than doing her own work . |
| 11 | From his period of employment in an Irish pub , Amiss was well accustomed to its denizens ' congenital gregariousness : this went hand in hand with a complete inability to understand anyone else 's need for peace . |