Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] best [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll certainly do my very best to look after them . ’
2 And please remember whatever I do and whatever becomes of me , I shall always do my very best to help you .
3 The festival is opening to the public until the end of the week but if you are not an ale fan its probably best to give it a miss .
4 Overwhelmed by her publicity , Amaranth finished her breakfast , and set out for the Grand and Harvey , doing her very best to subdue a worm of doubt .
5 Great practical achievements jostle with the expected financial and administrative problems but throughout it is a story of people doing their very best to improve the health and welfare of animals of all shapes and sizes and in all circumstances .
6 Indeed , once a psychic has become established it seems that nothing — not the most detailed confession , not the most damning exposure — can dent the confidence of believers-And , not content with continuing to believe the evidently fraudulent , they do their very best to draw the exposers into the net .
7 Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all .
8 Our technical staff will be pleased to advise you how best to do this if you absolutely have to , but the best management is of course provided by LIFESPAN , which means limiting yourself to just one process for your live data .
9 They 're not giving the talk aimed at telling you how best to invest your money .
10 I thought I would speak to Otto , ask him how best to go about having Jean-Claude 's work assessed for performance .
11 Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ?
12 It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ?
13 As a result one male , the dominant of the two , does his very best to keep the subordinate from mating , while the female does her best to get both males to mate with her .
14 He had tried his very best to grow .
15 Local Management of Schools was introduced to allow schools to decide for themselves how best to spend money to meet their pupils ' needs .
16 Can you tell us how best to maintain it as winter approaches and how to stop it freezing up
17 Of course we can not expect linguists , text critics or publishers to explain to us how best to interpret , mark and process those classically ambiguous phrases which are now the stock and trade of historical data modelling exercises .
18 Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property .
19 We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require .
20 Er we the Society try our very best to get over the message to people just before Christmas .
21 She insists upon strict discipline throughout the school , and if you take my advice you will do your very best to behave yourselves in her presence .
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