Example sentences of "for [pos pn] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only a week after the start of what was almost a revolutionary service — the cost : 1d for my eldest sister who was fourteen and half price or ½d for my other sister and myself . |
| 2 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 3 | if my for my best friend Jan |
| 4 | I think I 've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate . |
| 5 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 6 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 7 | She looked around the crowded room for her best friend , Margaret Forrester , and smiled as she saw her sitting on her husband 's lap . |
| 8 | And finally , a heartbroken goose is pining for her best friend , who 's disappeared from an animal santuary . |
| 9 | Dr Joan Freeman , who retired in 1983 after 32 years at Harwell , was presented with an Honorary Doctorate for her best seller ‘ A Passion for Physics ’ . |
| 10 | She had thought , wrongly , that she could allow the love which she had begun to feel for Dr Neil to express itself , only for her deepest instincts to take over when in beginning to make love to her he had unwittingly reminded her so strongly of what … he had done to her . |
| 11 | Lori McNeil , the lowest ranked player in the field , pulled off a 7–6 ( 7–1 ) , 6–4 first round victory in the Virginia Slims Championships for her biggest triumph in nine years on the women 's tennis circuit . |
| 12 | SCREEN beauty Daryl Hannah has signed up for her biggest role yet . |
| 13 | The outline of the character seemed right for her youngest daughter but when producer Alan Hardy saw Kylie , it was she he chose . |
| 14 | For her latest film , Sliver , she has earned almost 3m dollars . |
| 15 | I am not sure , though , that for her latest caper , ‘ The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous ( Bantam Press ) , she deserved the full , donnish , heavyweight treatment that she got from Valentine Cunningham in the Observer . |
| 16 | Aunt Tossie pushed her chair away from the tea table and reached for her latest square of needlework — a parrot clutching its way up the husky stem of a palm tree . |
| 17 | England international Julie Bradbury will on home territory for her latest challenge . |
| 18 | The blurb for her latest book describes her as ‘ one of Britain 's best-loved art critics ’ , but — sadly and symptomatically — she gives the impression that the Sacred grows on trees . |
| 19 | For her latest exhibition , Oulton has gone even further to distance herself from Old Master traditions and concepts of Englishness . |
| 20 | ALIEN star Sigourney Weaver , 43 , above , is letting her hair down for her latest role as America 's first lady in a comedy called Dave . |
| 21 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 22 | A four pounds penalty for her latest victory looks unlikely to stop her going in again . |
| 23 | Harbury 's green eyes were alert for her slightest response . |
| 24 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 25 | Nintendo Co does plan to use satellites for delivery of computer games : the company says it plans to broadcast a game via satellite in Japan , and owners of its game computers that buy a decoder and adaptor — for about $85 — will be able to pick the thing up ; Nintendo also plans a national competition for high scorers in satellite games ; meantime Nintendo of America is poised for its largest launch of a video game ever this week in a bid to best Sega Enterprises Ltd — it plans to spend up to $15m in a month-long promotion of Star Fox , a science fiction action game inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars that uses its new Super FX technology , which includes a RISC embedded in the $60 games cartridge ; it claims to have 1m advance orders for it . |
| 26 | Today the romance of saving Spitalfields has soured , even for its greatest devotees . |
| 27 | The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant , and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness , of shattered surface , of climatic excess , as to threaten the depravation , barbarism , and perhaps even extinction of the species . |
| 28 | While still running , he made a frantic jump for its lowest branch . |
| 29 | We hear thunder when it is close enough for its highest frequencies to reach us , but it also generates infrasonic sounds which travel much further . |
| 30 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |