Example sentences of "[conj] [art] best [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |
| 2 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
| 3 | They gave Ken the best reviews he had had to date — and the best he could possibly wish for . |
| 4 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
| 5 | He sought desperately for other examples , but the best he could come up with was , ‘ Things . ’ |
| 6 | Without his aid , Edward was bound to negotiate for peace with Scotland ; but the best he could do was to conclude a thirteen-year truce in 1323 . |
| 7 | But the best he could do was it down behind a large rock and escape from the grasp of the wind , though the rain still got to him and he started to shiver violently . |
| 8 | There had to be agencies and clinics that were competent to deal with drug abuse , while the best I could be was an enthusiastic amateur , and that was rarely good enough . |