Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the best [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the court has to do the best it can by way of what are really conventional figures in relation to injuries , the court assessing , of course , on the individual facts of the case , what is sometimes called the tariff , making adjustments for particular facts of the particular case . |
| 2 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 3 | I just tried to do the best I could . |
| 4 | I just want to do the best I can . " |
| 5 | They ca n't go up there , we 've got to do the best we possibly can , and the Government is doing all it possibly can to help by providing subsidies for housing associations by providing ninety five per cent of the rent rebates which this City Council gives , so on and so forth . |
| 6 | But we 'll just have to do the best we can . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll just have to do the best you can , ’ said Hurley . |
| 8 | It 's partly down to trying to do the best you can for your artists . |
| 9 | The odds , as they well knew , were against them finishing even one tour , but war is a horrible business and we all had to do the best we could in discouraging circumstances . |
| 10 | But she had to do the best she could . |
| 11 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 12 | Once out on the big seas of life , we each have to do the best we can , whether we have sails , or engines , or nothing but a wooden paddle . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , we all have to do the best we can until the damn thing is over . |