Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safety is always paramount to us in those matters and we are in discussion with them to see how best we can help . |
| 2 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 3 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 4 | She was back in the present and she knew how best to fill every moment of it . |
| 5 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 6 | It 's important to plan , so we predict how best to treat them . |
| 7 | His point arose because he felt we had n't best differentiated his guitar from the rest of the pack in our review of it . |
| 8 | Nowhere in the above description of manager training did it explain how best to carry the role of mediator . |
| 9 | In our natural history ( as elsewhere later in science ) it turned out best to adapt an existing language ; but the man who did it , Ligneous , in the middle of the eighteenth century , came from Sweden . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been a difficult year , ’ admits Sir David Nicholas wearily as he contemplates how best to manage 40 staff in the Gulf . |
| 11 | As it was a blind taste-testing , our famous judge had no idea that , coincidentally , the pie he picked as best for taste and texture was Selfridges ' own-brand , hand-baked mince pies . |
| 12 | A collection of nondescript prints , for example , can be given a sense of unity if each is mounted with the same distinctive colour : camel or chrome yellow or red , whichever fits in best with the room , and then edged all in the same way with a thin strip of wood or chrome or brass . |
| 13 | Effective ministry in frontier situations not only requires dedicated skills and energies but it requires us to learn how best to wrestle with the principalities and powers . |