Example sentences of "and [verb] for the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incentives to seek and follow advice , to think long-term rather than short , and to work for the best results at 16+ are all clearly set out . |
| 2 | This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it . |
| 3 | So it 's surprising that when we 're staying in a guest house on a walking holiday we 're content just to order ‘ a packed lunch ’ , and hope for the best . |
| 4 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 5 | It is not enough to rely on vitamin pills and hope for the best . |
| 6 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 7 | Liam just decided to ignore it all and hope for the best . |
| 8 | I would just wait at home and hope for the best — you know , that a decent price would be bid . |
| 9 | ‘ I give them aspirin and hope for the best . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , we must accept an uneasy status quo and hope for the best . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll just have to keep pestering and hope for the best . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe he 'd already unearthed what was left , and it was too late just to warn him off and hope for the best . |
| 13 | Look how he blooded Speed and Batty … he did nt chuck them in and hope for the best . |
| 14 | On balance , the best policy ahead of such a closely-fought election is to hang on and hope for the best . |
| 15 | The next day , and the day after , his requests for an audience met with a blunt refusal and the clerk had to stay and hope for the best . |
| 16 | The others will have to stay here and hope for the best . |
| 17 | It was far safer to start a town off with a charter , a market and a fair , and a few other practical inducements to settlers , and then to sit back and hope for the best . |
| 18 | She tried to decide whether she should swallow her pride and tell John how she felt or whether to just go on and hope for the best . |
| 19 | For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best . |
| 20 | Look , in my day , before the war , we always had wingers , none of this booting up the middle and hoping for the best . |
| 21 | Issues like food additives do concern me but I 'm just not sure whether it 's worth worrying — I usually end up following my own instincts and hoping for the best . ’ |
| 22 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 23 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 24 | Indeed I insisted , against his advice , on waiting , and waited for the best part of two hours , but then could wait no longer . |
| 25 | After the ‘ how your child 's life can be enriched ’ section , there 's advise on the basics like deciding what you want the computer to do , finding the software to do it , finding a computer that will run the software and shopping for the best deal on service and support . |