Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 2 | In such a situation , the colours show up to the best advantage , and the angling of the light helps to ‘ model ’ the detail and separate the planes to increase the illusion of depth . |
| 3 | Checks for the above publications should be made out to the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 4 | But she is settling in much better now and looking forward to the best Christmas dinner money can buy . ’ |
| 5 | It 's a special signal or you tune in , not to a certain frequency , but to Radio One and then wherever you go in the country it , it tunes in to the best transmitter . |
| 6 | With the new cancer service , more children like Alison can look forward to the best treatment available . |
| 7 | Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk , the enterprise lived up to the best expectations . |
| 8 | In ordinary affairs , for which we aspire only to the best choice on the available information , the only assurance we need is that each veering of spontaneous reaction with expanding awareness is objectively a change for the better . |
| 9 | We 've got what amounts to a lifetime 's supply of Crystal Clear airline to give away to the best idea for making the most of your free filter matting . |
| 10 | Each month we have a pair of Saucony Shadow 5000 shoes to give away to the best letter on a running issue . |
| 11 | GHI Advice : If you 'd like a copy of Practical Guide for Asthmatics , send a cheque for £1.75 made out to the Good Housekeeping Institute ( Asthma ) , 72 Broadwick St , London W1V 2BP . |
| 12 | the degree can vary from the rider feeling that he is having his arms pulled out to the good feeling when the horse is keen to get on with his business — this is described as being well up to the rider 's hand . |
| 13 | Some of the sites are enormously rich , however , and the history of palaeontology is punctuated by quite unscientific feuds between experts trying to find and hold on to the best sites for the most spectacular vertebrates . |
| 14 | Expatriates may feel that Britain has gone ‘ downhill ’ while they have been away and homecoming does not match up to the good life abroad . |
| 15 | And they 'll reach out to the best part of your body . |
| 16 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |