Example sentences of "her best " in BNC.
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| 1 | The queen of the authors is Harriet Scrope , novelist , plot-stealer , and ferocious egotist , whose war against the world she inhabits extends to her best friend and her cat . |
| 2 | She will send her best men down . |
| 3 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
| 4 | Corduroy Jeans On Upright Hoover — one of her best . |
| 5 | The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression . |
| 6 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 7 | On her best form she is a cut above the rest , but Carson 's mount , Princess Sobieska , could be a dangerous rival . |
| 8 | Also , the manager is expected to use his or her best endeavours to promote the artist 's career , while the artist should do nothing to jeopardize the reputation of the manager . |
| 9 | ‘ Cor , ’ she mocked in her best cockney accent , ‘ kept woman now , Phoebe Petherington , you ought to be ashamed of yourself . ’ |
| 10 | I ask her if it 's from Betty , her best friend in Scotland , but she says it ai n't . |
| 11 | Sam invited her best friend down for Christmas . |
| 12 | To be fair , she was a good-hearted woman who tried to do her best . |
| 13 | It was the Princess at her best ; completely natural and giving each child her undivided attention . |
| 14 | And despite her best entreaties , this Woking housewife achieved instant fame as the first person to miss the deadline for the much-hyped water offer . |
| 15 | Horner 's fierce forehand had been her best weapon , but Soutter was able to contain it with steady and accurate driving and a calm mind . |
| 16 | Though Spouse says Elspeth defies the idea that You Ca n't Take It With You and will join her ancestors wearing her best tweed and Celtic silver and clutching the two cut-glass decanters he has always coveted . |
| 17 | When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 . |
| 18 | Yet despite the pain and dyspnoea , she would fuss over me and make tea for me with her best crockery . |
| 19 | Increase her painkillers to a dangerous level , make do with the district nurses and hope she does n't fall again , which is , in fact , her best chance to get back in hospital ! |
| 20 | Most conspicuous was a short , dark girl dressed in scarlet who had a big head , big eyes ( her best feature ) , a big nose and a very big voice , which could be heard above all the other bleating , twanging , cackling , warbling , conspiratorial voices . |
| 21 | She took her best outfit from the paper carrier on the mantleshelf , shook it to get rid of the creases , and soon was all dressed up and ready to go with her red lipstick , her pretty pinned-up hair and her fancy black peep-toe shoes . |
| 22 | The only keepsakes Gloria had were her best peep-toe shoes and her little black hat with the veil . |
| 23 | Her black hat with the little veil had gone from the shelf , and her best peep-toe shoes . |
| 24 | When Gloria came , pattering across the ward in all her best , Dot could n't bear to see her pretty face and turned away on the pillow with shut eyes . |
| 25 | She had her best shoes on , and a new hat . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll show you one example , ’ said Pat , doing her best to control her anger . |
| 27 | Warshawski is her best yet . |
| 28 | She 's grown , she 's changed , she 's had a brilliant time , but her best is yet to come . |
| 29 | In the competition for titillation Britain put her best bust forward in the equally platinum , equally pneumatic person of Diana Dors ( 37–24–35 , as the newspapers always labelled her ) . |
| 30 | Alida Thorne wore her best suit , a straight-skirted mohair tweed in jewel green . |