Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'll treat you to them , I make my lot to the nearest bottle with Unicare if I can , how many you 've got ? |
| 2 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 3 | it is your duty as a manager or supervisor to tell your subordinates all that they need to know to perform their work to the best of their ability |
| 4 | LASMO aims to conduct its business to the highest possible professional standards . |
| 5 | The University of Nottingham is meeting these challenges by maintaining its commitment to the highest quality teaching and research . |
| 6 | Hurriedly , with her head down , she made her way to the nearest entrance that would take her back into the factory . |
| 7 | The 50-strong media entourage accompanying the Royal couple in South Korea subjected their marriage to the closest scrutiny on the four-day trip . |
| 8 | If he does not do so , Edwards will be able to sell his stake to the highest bidder . |
| 9 | I wondered if he was too obtuse to pick up what I was driving at ; he was a simple soldier , after all , serving his country to the best of his ability , etc. , etc . |
| 10 | If you have presented your case to the best of your ability , and the judge is evidently unconvinced , accept defeat and sit down . |
| 11 | I hauled my luggage to the nearest small hotel and took a cheap room . |
| 12 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
| 13 | I note here how eloquently he yields to the muted viola and cello duo at 2'07 ’ , withdrawing his tone to the merest thread of sound , barely grazing the string . |
| 14 | But if the airspace is excluded from the demise , the tenant 's adviser should ensure that the tenant obtains a right to enter the airspace for the purpose of performing his covenants. ( g ) Fences In the case of wooden fences it is likely to be inferred that in the absence of freeboard the owner of land will use his land to the fullest extent ; and the fence will be deemed to belong to the person on whose side the rails and posts are placed , the palings being placed on his neighbour 's side ( Halsbury 's Laws of England , 4th edn , vol 4 , para 849 ) . |
| 15 | This Meeting consider this a great hardship , Lint being a staple article of the Island they therefore wish Shawfield may have the Goodness to order matters upon such a footing as to enable his Tenantry to put their manufacture to the best avail . " |
| 16 | Performing their job to the best of their ability , such managers set an example for others to follow . |
| 17 | Even those who are acutely aware of these constraints have to be content with doing their job to the best of their ability , although they may be aware of the probable shortfall in impact of the whole project . |
| 18 | When a lion gets close enough to strike , it usually does so with great skill and confidence and does not appear to be miscalculating its position to the slightest degree . |
| 19 | So while the Apostate 's squaring the circle with the last of Gittel 's breed , I turn my attention to the nearest branch of the familial tree of old Shmuel ben Issachar . |
| 20 | On such a problem , although you may venture an opinion as to the proper verdict on the point , and argue your opinion to the best of your ability , you should not , in the last resort , usurp the function of the jury ( or of the judge when there is no jury ) . |
| 21 | In addition , we will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your caravan to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after repair to your address as shown on the schedule . |
| 22 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 23 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 24 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 25 | Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land . |
| 26 | Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper ! |
| 27 | Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper ! |
| 28 | … when came the fashion for the vanishing author , the silent author , the transparent text … , the critics , always quick to adapt their vocabulary to the latest bandwagon , started calling the narrator both character who narrates and the producer of the text , that is , the author … . |
| 29 | Do you know how to upgrade your software to the latest version for the least cost ? |
| 30 | Sell your secret to the highest bidder ? ’ |