Example sentences of "[pron] good [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will try to slant my handwriting to be more adult like , I will try to get many merit points , I will try to get at the top sets for every lesson you are in the top sets for every lesson do well in them , I want to carry on my good progress in the sports area , I do many sports now and I want to do more |
| 2 | I ran my good hand across the surface . |
| 3 | I 'm going to do my good deed for the day . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's my best performance of the season attitude wise , ’ said Parrott , who has gone off the boil since opening the current campaign with tournament wins in China and Dubai . |
| 5 | I smiled my best smile down the line . |
| 6 | That i , all I can say is that my , that 's my best guess at the moment . |
| 7 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 8 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 9 | Most clients are compelled against their better nature by the voice of the devil on the end of the telephone . |
| 10 | Many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the past few years , Mr Palumbo writes in the council 's annual report , and having inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they should acknowledge their responsibilities by returning a portion of their good fortune to the community . |
| 11 | By pursuing evil and producing the appearance of good , the state reveals its abiding method — the perpetuation of its good name in the face of its own propensity for violence , conquest , and destruction . |
| 12 | The manufacturer profited from the sale of the can by exploiting her good will towards the planet . |
| 13 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 14 | I also wish her good luck for the future . |
| 15 | In each case the punishment profit corresponds to its best response to the actions of the other firms . |
| 16 | They helped give Vauxhall its best share of the UK market in 1992 at 16.7 per cent . |
| 17 | And use the fifteen grand to its best image in the way that you feel then you can turn round and run a club so it can get people in . |
| 18 | Each shape it sees is compared to a set of stylised representations of the alphabet , and the one with the greatest number of matching parts is chosen as its best guess at the letter the shape is supposed to be . |
| 19 | Quickly she put on lacy underwear and pulled her best dress from the wardrobe , a cocktail-length skirt of full , flame-coloured taffeta topped by a portrait-necked bodice of black velvet . |
| 20 | She took her best outfit from the paper carrier on the mantleshelf , shook it to get rid of the creases , and soon was all dressed up and ready to go with her red lipstick , her pretty pinned-up hair and her fancy black peep-toe shoes . |
| 21 | The wedding was set to give the royals their best publicity of the year . |
| 22 | Scotland had the satisfaction of outscoring Queensland by two tries ( Stark and Lineen ) to one and they produced their best rugby of the tour to earn a well-deserved draw . |
| 23 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 24 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 25 | Dundee opened brightly , harbouring thoughts of an upset , but when Pittman shot wide in seven minutes , their best chance of the match had been squandered . |
| 26 | For example , in India , graduate schools of social work are a major training resource for the social welfare services but some observers suggest that their educational approach might not be congruent with local needs and might not be making their best contribution to the nation 's social welfare and social development goals . |
| 27 | Despite the defeat , Coventry can be satisfied with their form against the League champions , who are enjoying their best spell of the season — unbeaten in 11 games . |
| 28 | But with Dundee currently enjoying their best run of the season victory was certainly no foregone conclusion . |
| 29 | But their best move of the day was throwing that Union Jack over his shoulders . |
| 30 | BRENTFORD 'S run of six successive wins came to an end before their best crowd of the season and West Ham were unlucky not to have taken all three points . |