Example sentences of "[verb] what was good for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the professional 's specialized area of knowledge , the layman was unlikely to know what was best for himself . |
| 2 | Well they did n't know what was best for her . |
| 3 | Did n't know what was best for themselves half the time . |
| 4 | We decided to do what was best for Ryan . ’ |
| 5 | Given the world as he saw it , Bill was seeking to do what was best for the United States . ’ |
| 6 | Once we were at Arrancay together , I thought we 'd be able to talk it out — decide what was best for the future . |
| 7 | In the colonial context , the word ‘ participation ’ had an uncomfortable ring about it , quite alien to the ideology of the political ‘ status quo ’ , and the colonial administration and agricultural extension service knowing what was good for the African cultivator . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She knew what was good for children , and a full stomach was very dangerous to their health . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |