Example sentences of "he [vb past] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 2 | Next door , the Archdeacon 's shower was not quite hot enough , but he made the best of it . |
| 3 | Whether Gould greeted all of his contacts with a similarly gauche introduction or not , he made the best of his time in Sydney and called on , among others , the missionary Bishop of Australia , William Broughton , and Alexander MacLeay , first President of the Australian Museum at Sydney . |
| 4 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 5 | He became the best available villain for those who wished to fasten upon an individual to blame for Britain 's plight . |
| 6 | Neil Cardow , 25 , had knifed John Kerr , 24 , nine times after he got the better of Cardow in a fight . |
| 7 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 8 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |
| 9 | He used the best available craftsmen to make beautiful rusticated quoin stones , decorated iron rainwater heads , bolection moulded panelling and door surrounds with broken pediments over , a plaster ceiling on the landing with swags and scrolled foliage , and a grand segmental pediment over the front door . |
| 10 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 11 | Reveals a source : ‘ Chris reckoned he deserved the best as he was spending so much time and money in the place . ’ |
| 12 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 13 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 14 | In all , he spent the best part of four hours in the water , before meeting up at Gloucester Cathedral with the Bishop of Tewkesbury ( above ) , who had walked the 10 miles along the river bank ( a much more sensible idea ) , the culmination of a week-long pilgrimage around his diocese . |
| 15 | He loved beautiful things , and he employed the best builders and gardeners in England to work on Fullcircle . |
| 16 | He repeated the best win of his career — over the Soviet No.1 , Andrei Mazunov , in Moscow last season — by saving a game point at 21-22 and going on to win 24-22 , 21-12 . |
| 17 | He named the best restaurant in Munich . |
| 18 | He decided the best way was to divide his remains into 28 smaller launches . |
| 19 | He thought the better of pressing on that one too |
| 20 | As to alternative sources of care he thought the better answer was the crossroads organisation rather than an nursing agency . |
| 21 | Our leader known to all as ‘ BK ’ , was an experienced Himalayan mountaineer and he knew the best local porters . |
| 22 | Although not an agricultural innovator , he was an astute farmer and businessman : he took great care in selecting seed and breeding stock ; he knew the best markets in the region for a wide variety of products ; and he endeavoured never to miss an opportunity for profit . |
| 23 | He combined the best English traditions of amateur science and patronage by the landed gentry , to the great benefit of mathematics . |
| 24 | A Congregationalist who turned Anglican , he combined the best of both Catholic and evangelical traditions . |
| 25 | Poprischin was first played by the same actor Tim McConnell ( who also wrote the screenplay ) in the Dublin Theatre Festival 1987 where he won the Best Actor Harvey Award , and in 1989 won the off-Broadway OBIE . |
| 26 | At the end of that season he did the best thing he 'd ever done — he split with 13- times tiddler world champ and team manager Angel Nieto to create his own team with the help of glamorous wife Sylvie . |
| 27 | He did the best he could . |
| 28 | He liked the good things of life but he was no sybarite . |
| 29 | He liked the good life , lived to enjoy himself . |
| 30 | He spoke the best English . |