Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] his good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the most wealthy merchants and industrialists were to be found in St Petersburg , where Peter had done his best to concentrate commercial activity . |
| 2 | Perhaps this operation would be the last , perhaps his Western masters would finally decide that the old workhorse had given his best and deserved to be put out in rich pastures . |
| 3 | Carter had done his best in his campaign to capitalize on this negative mood , yet the margin of his success at the polls had been small . |
| 4 | Archbishop Wulfstan of York had done his best under Æthelred to rectify social conditions worsened by ravaging , taxation and famine , and produced for the 1018 meeting of Danes and English at Oxford a text " devised according to many good precedents " and intended to be of " advantage in religious and secular matters " which he later used as a basis for his more extensive legal material in Cnut 's name . |
| 5 | Evidently Mossop had done his best to deceive his mother , though Harry suspected his blinking , stammering parade of insecurity was bound to have betrayed him . |