Example sentences of "have [verb] the best [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised he could provide her with some top-class partners and she has made the best of them . |
| 2 | Monie , who has also coached Sydney side Parramatta to Grand Final glory , has produced the best of British beef in Wigan forwards Kelvin Skerrett , Andy Platt , Betts and Phil Clarke . |
| 3 | P. W. Conolly , when District Judge at Negombo , wrote that ‘ when parties quarrel and assault each other , it is no uncommon thing for the person who has got the best of the struggle to have an animal brought to the spot , and a charge of cattle stealing is preferred against the unfortunate man who has been assaulted . ’ |
| 4 | The UK distributor has performed the best of all overseas market , so well in fact that Aldus have set up a UK subsidiary . |
| 5 | One has to make the best of a situation , after all . |
| 6 | It may be that we could not have had the best of Connors without the worst of him . ’ |
| 7 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to make the best of it . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd just have to make the best of it . |
| 10 | Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities . |
| 11 | You 'll just have to make the best of the situation . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll have to make the best of it , ’ were the Headmaster 's last words on leaving that morning to catch the 9.22 to Victoria . |
| 13 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 14 | The colours all yelled at each other ; most of the furniture was cheap and shabby and it was in a clutter of smelly untidiness , but the general effect was of a room somebody had made the best of according to their taste , and enjoyed living in . |
| 15 | Although she had made the best of resolutions not to be drawn into talking about her own times , she found it hard to resist Johnny 's persistent questioning . |
| 16 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 17 | And if you 've got a partner that 's doing it as well then you 've got the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | Would n't surprise me if we 've had the best of the day . |
| 19 | Nicholson , Fonda and Hopper had become the best of friends . |
| 20 | Since she had grown up , they had become the best of buddies . |
| 21 | They , they 've seen all the sights , and they 've eaten the best of the food and er , erm , it 's time to go really , before you know they get , they outstay their welcome , and go past their sell-by date . |
| 22 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 23 | Germany , too , had lost the best of her young manhood . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it . |
| 26 | The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course . |
| 27 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |
| 28 | We have seen the best of our time ; machinations , hollowness , treachery , and all numerous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They have made the best of a bad situation . ’ |
| 30 | After finishing cocktails and going into that gorgeous , lofty , airy dining-room , and especially getting a window table as we were lucky enough to , you have had the best of what they have to offer at the Ritz , considerable as this is . |