Example sentences of "be [adv] for [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |
| 2 | If you can swallow the unlikely nature of the killer 's powers , then you are in for a good rough ride down a murky road . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's OK , I can deal with it ; I 'm all for a good fight , especially with you as my opponent — it keeps life from being dull . |
| 4 | Ed was just like a one off and I 'm not forward any more at all and , you know , everyone thinks I am you know and Pete thought right I 'm in for a good time here , you know , I can probably get her you know , and so Charlie would have to carry out his part . |
| 5 | As children , we all got up to tricks like pinching a few apples or knocking on someone 's door and running away — all rather harmless , but if our parents found out , we would be in for a good hiding , a cut on the backside . |
| 6 | Yeah , then you I know , but John I mean you 'd be up for a good couple of grand if you did stick it out . |
| 7 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 8 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We are here for a good time , it is n't a crusade , but we want to win , ’ said Masters champion Couples . |
| 10 | And Couples warned : ‘ We are here for a good time , but we want to win . |
| 11 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 12 | ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’ |
| 13 | Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain . |
| 14 | The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North . |
| 15 | If that can happen to one of the most prestigious shopping streets in the world , we can be sure that dispossessin' is in for a good run . |
| 16 | ‘ But perhaps that 's not for the best , ’ replied Mr Crangle . |
| 17 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 18 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 19 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 20 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 22 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 23 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 24 | Although SHe suffered a disquieting disappointment when Jahsaxa told hir Malamute would not be coming back ( not even a goodbye ! ) , it was probably for the best . |
| 25 | He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight . |