Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia .
2 ‘ I 'll make the bread sauce if you like , ’ said Betty selflessly ; so Lydia let her , which was fairly unselfish of Lydia who made the best bread sauce in the world with a great deal of butter , nutmeg and black pepper .
3 they made the best discovery .
4 They made the best discovery of all .
5 Rutherford again made the best stand of the innings , for the fourth wicket , with the captain who was n't keen on having him in the team .
6 Rory made the best attempt she could at a dismissive laugh .
7 When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening .
8 That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology .
9 A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration .
10 Senna desperately needed to beat Mansell at the start but the Williams made the better getaway .
11 Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast .
12 Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up .
13 His 68 equalled the best round over the course — a similar effort by Kerry 's Eoghan O'Connell last year .
14 The facts came to light when a former Brent librarian , J.T. Gillet , read the good news that a new library had been opened in Brent .
15 Subsequent decisions on strategy concerned the best use of American resources in the European theatre of war , and here the British Prime Minister , Winston Churchill , played an important role in 1942 .
16 Eton were in charge for most of the match , although Lancing squandered the best chance near the end .
17 Lancashire rider Ian Newton produced the best performance of his career when he won the 250cc class in the second round of the European road-racing championship at Kirkistown , County Down .
18 A manual describing the art was written in Holland in 1674 , and at that time it was the Dutch who produced the best work .
19 1 Do you think your group produced the best answer to the problem ? 2 Did you get a fair chance to express your opinion ?
20 I inadvertently got the best vantage point on one of the most exciting holes in the world ! "
21 He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet .
22 Gerald Strine in the same newspaper was more forthright : for him Piggott ‘ nearly got the best horse beaten ’ .
23 Now Rideout , a £500,000 buy from Rangers , is determined to show Kendall got the best deal .
24 After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value .
25 They got the good dividend .
26 It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans .
27 At first Anne felt indignant with Joe , but when she thought it over , realised the good sense of his warning .
28 Anxious to do things properly , however , Charles sought the best specialist advice which he could get ; he found it by consulting eminent jurists of the legal centres of Bologna , Montpellier , Orléans , and Toulouse .
29 The beginning of the end : Australia provided the best race of 1992
30 Regional firms provided the best value for money , said 70% of executives , and only 6% endorsed London firms .
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