Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could . |
| 2 | This part of the grape 's flesh produces the richest juice in terms of sugar , acids and trace elements , and goes to make the highest quality Champagnes . |
| 3 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 4 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 5 | Outside in the street , huge crowds were already gathering , joking and laughing , and pushing to get the best places near the great black platform , where the rope hung ready for its morning 's work . |
| 6 | This architecture was adopted because it was simple to build , fitted the theoretical preconceptions of early computer scientists , and seemed to offer the greatest reliability . |
| 7 | It is essential that alternative accommodation should be very varied in type and support to give the greatest degree of independence to patients commensurate with their disabilities and to enable adjustments to be made in small steps . |
| 8 | There 's a management section where you can swap players and try to buy the best ones on the market , and there are also plenty of power-ups to aim for . |
| 9 | The Company 's service engineers are highly qualified , and trained to specify the best use of the equipment for each individual well . |
| 10 | This is a typical problem that would come into one of our advice centres where a consumer has bought something , f failed to get any satisfaction from the shop and then has gone to the advice centre to er has found and tries to find the nearest Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Advice Centre to try to get advice . |
| 11 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |