Example sentences of "[vb past] the good [noun] " 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 | Eddy , the older of the two , shared the good looks of Ralph , but he was by far the strongest kid I ever knew . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | they made the best discovery . |
| 5 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 6 | The ones who made the best records with the least effort , took the most drugs , gatecrashed the best parties and got involved with the strangest people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |
| 9 | Rory made the best attempt she could at a dismissive laugh . |
| 10 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 11 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 12 | He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists . |
| 13 | St Aloysius ' John Timson made the best series break of 44 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Senna desperately needed to beat Mansell at the start but the Williams made the better getaway . |
| 17 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His 68 equalled the best round over the course — a similar effort by Kerry 's Eoghan O'Connell last year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Eton were in charge for most of the match , although Lancing squandered the best chance near the end . |
| 23 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 24 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 25 | They sold the best diamonds en route . |
| 26 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A manual describing the art was written in Holland in 1674 , and at that time it was the Dutch who produced the best work . |
| 29 | 1 Do you think your group produced the best answer to the problem ? 2 Did you get a fair chance to express your opinion ? |
| 30 | After the Second World War , there was a change of emphasis among sociologists concerning what research techniques produced the best data . |