Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 2 | The tears she 'd mastered got the better of her . |
| 3 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 4 | Their daughter seemed to have taken the best features and left the bad ones . |
| 5 | Was Heroin the song they sang to keep fighting the good fight ? |
| 6 | Wheeler , who was junior to them both , who had contrived to have the best set of rooms in the office and who had successfully requested both men to wait on him , cleared his throat to announce that he was ready to start the discussion . |
| 7 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 8 | I had lain awake the better part of the night . |
| 9 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |