Example sentences of "best thing that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 2 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 3 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 4 | ‘ If Barry was reinstated , it would be the best thing that could happen to us . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ This is the best thing that could happen here , ’ says Alex Lowes , organiser of the Southampton weekenders and a regular at Flying 's latest Saturday night . |
| 6 | Best thing that could happen , the way I see it . |
| 7 | ‘ Keep the old place in the family , I thought — best thing that could happen if I could n't stay there myself . |
| 8 | She saw that to stay here under his wing would be the best thing that could happen to her . |
| 9 | The best thing that could happen for Mr. Lennon and his friends would be if the military wing of Sinn Fein stopped trying to blow up Belfast . |
| 10 | Best thing that could happen would be that Wilko signs the lon term contract and then 4–6 months into it decides that he wants out say to go and play with Terry Vegatables at England . |
| 11 | It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody . |
| 12 | ‘ Andy , that 's the best thing that could have happened to you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ ANDY THAT 'S the best thing that could have happened to you . ’ |
| 14 | With hindsight , it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him , otherwise he would no doubt have ended up as a Bomber Pilot , and no-one knows better than I what a dead-end occupation that was . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 16 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing to be sorry for ; it 's the best thing that could have happened . |
| 18 | In many ways the results are the best thing that could have happened and all is certainly not lost . |
| 19 | But , says WAYNE SHELFORD , much as it hurts , defeat was the best thing that could have happened … |
| 20 | Perhaps it 's the best thing that could have happened . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the best thing that could have happened , ’ says Barclay , who guided Pat Cash to the senior Wimbledon crown . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's the best thing that could have happened , ’ says Barclay , w ho guided pat Cash to the senior Wimbledon crown . |
| 23 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 24 | best thing that could have happened |
| 25 | ‘ Those three years were the best thing that could have happened to me . |
| 26 | It 's the best thing that could have happened to the pair of ‘ em . |
| 27 | But , guitarist Bruce Watson proclaims : ‘ Being dropped by Phonogram was the best thing that could have happened to us . |
| 28 | ‘ Best thing that could have happened , ’ said club captain Bill Logan , an eye specialist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast . |
| 29 | He declared that the ANC and its allies wanted " peace and democracy " and that " if the government … responds in the same spirit , our action will have been the best thing that could have happened to the negotiations process " . |