Example sentences of "[pron] [adj -est] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain . |
| 2 | I had done my best to study the language in Fontanellato . |
| 3 | Then , as now , I shall do my best to ensure the protection of Scotland 's best interests by maintaining its place as a full , equal partner in this United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 4 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 5 | ‘ My predecessors have set very high standards and I will do my best to maintain the dignity of the office , carrying out my duties with appropriate taste and decorum but perhaps with a little fun , too , ’ he said . |
| 6 | She walked to the door , trying her hardest to ignore the man who fell into step beside her . |
| 7 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 8 | Rehearsals save you being embarrassed in the meeting by broken light bulbs , out of focus films , a speaker half an hour late because he could n't find anywhere to park , and shrieks and howls as the public address system does its best to drown the speaker . |
| 9 | It is , at least , doing its best to raise the price of cigarettes . |
| 10 | During the talks Shar " indicated that the Syrian government would do its best to secure the release of British hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 11 | FICTION has done its best to depict the megalomania of the media industry , throwing up characters like Lord Copper , Citizen Kane and Lord Gnome . |
| 12 | Nicandra had to jump her best to reach the latch on the friendly green door . |
| 13 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 14 | Comfort left Venice two days later , promising to write to Julia every week and to do her best to put the house in order for their return . |
| 15 | Doing her best to ignore the sight of his bare torso , it was some moments before she recalled the fact that Ross had never worn any pyjamas . |
| 16 | The dowager did her best to satisfy the nobility by trailing a number of them off to France , and getting pensions for them — even if some , like the master of Ruthven , complained about the shabbiness of the pay-off : . |
| 17 | The distraught mother , a nurse , did her best to stem the bleeding until an ambulance arrived at their home in Milton Keynes , Bucks . |
| 18 | In the ever changing conditions of real life the clinician would adjust any regimen to the patient 's particular needs ; in contrast , the researcher would do his or her best to make the patient conform with the standard set down by the protocol . |
| 19 | So we went back in and things were patched up and Mum made a pot of tea and tried to make amends by promising to do her best to make the wedding the best in the district . |
| 20 | A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ . |
| 21 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
| 22 | ‘ The embalmers did their best to dress the corpse : before the coffin was lowered , I looked once more at the face . |
| 23 | Chapter One begins with allegations printed in one of the more respectable weekly magazines that do their best to ruin the reputation of everyone in the public eye . |
| 24 | I regard barbaric sport , not only perhaps as fox hunting but also such things as boxing , where two people , two individuals do their best to hit the life out of the other and it is watched by thousands of people . |
| 25 | The undoubted academic success was welcome and pleasing to the Goldsmiths , and they had done their best to reconcile the Headmaster and his critics . |
| 26 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 27 | To counteract this problem , vendors are doing their best to smooth the upgrade paths between DOS and Windows versions . |
| 28 | She hints that teachers and local officials will do their best to blunt the impact of the market . |
| 29 | Other parents do their best to frighten the life out of those who have not arrived at this stage , with doom-laden tales of trouble and strife . |
| 30 | Outside , doing their best to frighten the cat spitless with their howling , were fifty sledge dogs , each chained to a kennel , well separated to stop their most frequent game , that of tearing lumps out of each other . |