Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] [verb] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seldom let his curiosity get the better of him again . |
| 2 | This , Uzzell reckons , has several benefits — it motivates his company to do the best job possible ; it instills confidence in the customer ; and , best of all , if targets are exceeded , both parties reap the benefits . |
| 3 | With ethnic disco jewellery from Afghanistan and Pakistan , Apache once again shows his determination to reflect the best of East and West . |
| 4 | The trouble is , he lets his frustration get the better of him sometimes and snarls and snaps at anyone who is not too much in authority over him . |
| 5 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 6 | Chas is certainly shown as aspiring to a variety of goals ; these include his aim to have the best war souvenir collection in Garmouth , to detach the machine gun from the crashed aeroplane , to dig his own underground air raid shelter , to build a gun emplacement and to fire the gun . |
| 7 | He himself emphasized his concern to record the good and bad that was being done in his own day , especially in so far as it concerned the Church , and he noted among the principal actors , kings , catholics and heretics . |