Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] the good " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard .
2 Yeah four months old and it , I said that 's just the way you want them the better
3 The timbers are badly shaped and put together ; such a structure can only be a vehicle for plants and the sooner they cover it the better .
4 The evening will be semi-business anyway , so your qualifications make you the best candidate . ’
5 We aim to recruit the best people , give them the best training , set the best standards , establish quality assurance and maintain a system of peer review within our firms and through our national institutes .
6 Love for another is one of the main derivatives of this awareness of difference ( two bodies in different skins ) and the accompanying gratitude when good things are provided : ‘ I love you because you are my mother and give me the good things I need . ’
7 Mind yer , 'e likes ter give me the best , does my 'Arold . ’
8 Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’
9 So really you 're you ca n't lose they come they give you the best advice , they give it in a written form .
10 I 'll just once more track , do n't say all give you the best possible advice .
11 Cos they always give you the best deal .
12 The British Government lifted red tape restrictions so that a charity here could fly in the eight-month-old girl , and give her the best chance of survival .
13 I … that is I , my wife and my children … we , I , do not like to invite a friend to a party and not give him the best .
14 And give him the good news .
15 We however consider it the best mode of instruction , as we are perpetually saying , that when ever a horse acts agreeably to the wishes of his rider , it should follow that he receive some indulgence from him .
16 ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’
17 And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great .
18 Give us the good news . ’
19 Can you advise me about the pros and cons and tell me the best way to retain their copper finish ?
20 Ooh I think I like yours the best , this is a bit heavy .
21 Well I tell you the best one is
22 ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent .
23 But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best .
24 Try and remember it the best you can .
25 No wonder Spurs rate them the best they have faced .
26 WILL AN INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISER FIND YOU THE BEST MORTGAGE DEAL ?
27 we 'll phone Chris and Keith and ask them the best time for us to go when the kids are not there , and she 'll tell us
28 Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can .
29 " Make it the best of a week 's "
30 Whatever you buy , make it the best you can afford .
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