Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] for good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 2 | This has happened partly for good political reasons because there was need to demand a more equal society . |
| 3 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 4 | We 're going to live here for good , Shelley . |
| 5 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 6 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 7 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 8 | Now her parents had come home for good , and had taken a beautiful house in Buckinghamshire , where Mrs Grant meant to entertain on a large scale . |
| 9 | He wrapped the body in a pair of curtains , then phoned his parents to say Dean had left home for good , Birmingham Crown Court was told . |