Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] best [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonn is now hoping that Mr Gorbachev 's publicly cautious , but presumably privately firm pressure on the East German leaders to reform will produce results and doing their best to reinforce it . |
| 2 | It is consistent with denying its authority and doing my best to overturn it , including inciting its subjects to revolt against it . |
| 3 | We have to allow for some license : he is writing to his brother in Paris about this street pick-up and doing his best to make it palatable . |
| 4 | We all sort of know what needs to be done and do our best to do it . |
| 5 | Folly shook her head , then realised that the gesture would n't travel too well over the telephone wires and did her best to translate it into words . |