Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 2 | C.Z. style : Mrs Guest ( main picture ) dresses down for a dressed up evening in Adolfo 's chocolate chenille cardigan jacket and sequin striped T-shirt , with cut velvet georgette skirts and splendid pearls . |
| 3 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 4 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 5 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 6 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 7 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 8 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 9 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 10 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 11 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 12 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 13 | It was a clean up for the Irish in the Junior Drum Majors competition , with Darren McBride once again dominating the top placing , and J Elvin in third , A McKeown in fourth and R Elvin in fifth places . |
| 14 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 15 | His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler . |
| 16 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 17 | Mushtaq Ahmed held out for an hour-and-a-half for 11 , standing by Malik while the biggest stand of the innings — 64 — was constructed . |
| 18 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 19 | What a load of bull … the bidders fight it out for the best of British beef . |
| 20 | It would turn out for the best in the end ; it must . |
| 21 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |