Example sentences of "[pron] have [to-vb] the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 2 | But she had to do the best she could . |
| 3 | But whatever the reason behind it , if there was a reason and it was n't simply someone shaking up names in a box and picking one out here and there , it was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders — here she was and she had to make the best of it . |
| 4 | They expect you to get on They tell you what to do and you had to make the best . |
| 5 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 6 | You have to recruit the best , even if it means fighting an uphill battle to get personnel policies changed , to persuade your boss to pay your people more . |
| 7 | Well , I mean to say you have to make the best of things . |
| 8 | You have to have very good equipment , and you have to have the best start possible . |
| 9 | One has to make the best of a situation , after all . |
| 10 | Well , there are always possible alternative forecasts that we might make , but on the whole I think we know that we have to decide the best possible forecast that we can give , and , well , when I say ‘ the best ’ , the most erm confident forecast that we can push out erm with the information that we have available . |
| 11 | We have to make the best of what we have . ’ |
| 12 | That amazes me why people , it 's like a status symbol they have to have the best bloody machine ! |
| 13 | But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it . |