Example sentences of "[vb past] what was good [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 2 | If they knew what was good for them they 'd be raising their panamas quizzically , glowering under the brims of their fedoras , flourishing their tweed caps and tilting their trilbies from morning till night . |
| 3 | She knew what was good for children , and a full stomach was very dangerous to their health . |
| 4 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 5 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 6 | She had had enough of these old people who looked down at her from their height of years , who always knew what was best for her . |