1.   Admit temporary defeat with good grace, retreat, reconsider and wait.

2.   But he tucked his manuscript away with a good grace.

3.   He threw himself with good grace into everything, even this.

4.   Kevin smiled and accepted his defeat with good grace.

5.   Life is very crude, and bonnie Princes Street a dream, but we soldier on with a good grace.

6.   Mr Macmillan was, according to colleagues, prepared to give way with good grace when he could not carry the Cabinet.

7.   My wineglass was empty and she was bringing me a refill with unheard-of good grace.

8.   Sport only thrives if both parties play by the rules, and accept the results with good grace.

9.   They accept his habitual interruptions with good grace.

10.   They all tried to get into his good graces, even writers who wrote for the bourgeois papers, even the Hebraists.