Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 3 | The Bok selectors do , however , seem to have made an effort to add some pace to the back row in the form of Pretorius and Richter , both of whom showed well when Northern Transvaal produced comfortably the best provincial performance of the Antipodean tours to take the Wallabies to the wire . |
| 4 | It was a significant influence in the wave of strikes of the late Fifties , until Healy 's authoritarian methods drove away the best people . |
| 5 | Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints . |
| 6 | You will need to gauge the distances covered so the best way is to take a car ride around your proposed route and use the odometer to measure the distance between familiar landmarks . |
| 7 | And this week Sunday Life tracked down the Good Samaritans involved — Noel and Mary Redpath . |
| 8 | Carefully planning the cheapest air fares , allocating her meagre budget as sparingly as possible on food and accommodation , she travelled the world and took on the best . |
| 9 | I 'm concerned that we give our three children the right education and lay down the best possible plans for the future . |
| 10 | She felt all the better for it . |
| 11 | And he felt all the better for it . |
| 12 | But people felt generally the better for his ‘ Quite ’ at conferences , and so did the guests at his baffling feast . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 14 | Eleanor felt they were the funniest letters she 'd ever written ; Nigel brought out the best in her writing . |
| 15 | Flynn also brought out the best in Seaman with a 25-yard shot but while Coventry 's strike force of Furlong and Ndlovu showed promise , their threat later diminished . |
| 16 | She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert . |
| 17 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
| 18 | It brought out the best in our members and it brought out the best in the trade union movement . |
| 19 | It brought out the best in our members and it brought out the best in the trade union movement . |
| 20 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
| 21 | Zamora in Los Angeles is like Murphy in Ireland , ‘ and most of them are just as tough ’ said McCullough 's manager , Matt Tinley after a bout that brought out the best in Wayne . |
| 22 | The champagne atmosphere brought out the best in the Australians . |
| 23 | The marathon four mile trip brought out the best in Keep Talking and he rallied well when challenged by the useful Irish raider High Peak to win by four lengths . |
| 24 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 25 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 26 | It gave easily the best value . |
| 27 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 28 | In the continuing war of words between reformers and hardliners , Mr Nemeth conjured up the best insult of the day when he referred to his opponents as ‘ Stone Age conservatives ’ . |
| 29 | ALL IN THE FAMILY William Randolph Hearst Jr had arguably the best seat at the twentieth century . |
| 30 | In the most competitive of the three preliminary rounds , designed to get horses used to the arena before the cup begins in earnest , she and Forester had easily the best of a four horse jump-off . |