Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shop around for the best possible deals and the best service . |
| 2 | With higher power , you need more light , so bigger lenses — so try 8x30 , 8x40 , 10x40 or 10x50 at a good store , and shop around for the best price . |
| 3 | ‘ Roll up , roll up for the Greatest Show on Earth , ’ Jack cried expansively , waving his arms around . |
| 4 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 5 | I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe . |
| 6 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 7 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 8 | ‘ Strangely , things work out for the best , ’ she whispered . |