Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the good of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelham Country Foods are at the Priory to provide you with the best of A Taste of Sussex . |
| 2 | But , then when you 've done it to the best of your ability and you ca n't really see the rewards , then you have to analyse why . |
| 3 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 4 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 5 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 6 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 7 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 8 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |
| 9 | go to the supermarket and I would bung it of the best of stuff . |
| 10 | We will try , however , to advise them to the best of our abilities with particular emphasis on representation by other galleries . |
| 11 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 12 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 13 | I tend to get completely engrossed with what I am doing and do it to the best of my ability , ’ … and that 's running Runrig . |