Example sentences of "what is good for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will be angry I know and accuse me of all manner of evil things but one thing you can not accuse me of Lily is not caring for your son upon whose life I swear I love him truly and want only what is best for him . |
| 2 | In too many instances a player 's schedule is determined just as much by the need to honour commercial contracts or by their agents , as by what is best for him or her . |
| 3 | Relatives , of course , do not always agree with the individual about what is best for him or her and they may not agree with professionals trying to help the person either . |
| 4 | Mrs. Proudie , on the other hand , definitely has a mind of her own — and though she supports her husband she does it in her own particular way and follows her own idea of what is best for him . |
| 5 | We have been responsible for launching our children into life and are well aware that we have made the usual crop of mistakes , even though we have tried our hardest to do what is best for them . |
| 6 | Better still , he loves my children even more than I do and wants what is best for them . |
| 7 | However , three powerful forces — habit , convenience , and ignorance or diffidence about alternatives — propel most people into this decision , rather than any conscious evaluation of what is best for them . |
| 8 | We believe that women have their own needs and are capable of deciding what is best for them . |
| 9 | This can be aided by the use of application packages which the users can try out and choose what is best for them . |
| 10 | I I I just wondered with the so-called if staff members independent advice , erm , on what is best for them to do with superannuation pension scheme . |
| 11 | There should be clearer labelling of food so that people can determine what is best for them . |
| 12 | You are not allowed to move the child from his/her home until the court has decided what is best for him/her child . |
| 13 | And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter . |
| 14 | Then rest in his care for you , confident that he will do what is best for you , provided that you , for your part , work diligently but gently . |
| 15 | If you ca n't make up your mind what is best for you , ask yourself these questions : |
| 16 | ‘ Fairness ’ said Roger , ‘ does n't come into it , it 's a question of what is best for you ’ . |
| 17 | But , but this is where you , where we 've got to strike the appropriate balance between doing what is best for the customer and what is best for us . |
| 18 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 19 | If the people at Chesky know what is good for them , they will give ‘ Wild Earl ’ his head and record whatever he wants : there is almost no other pianist around playing his kind of repertoire with his kind of zest . |
| 20 | The punters , who have by now learned what is good for them , have not been opposing him . |
| 21 | How else is the good reader to establish what is good for him or her individually ? |
| 22 | His motto seems to be ‘ what is good for me , must be good for everybody else too ’ . |
| 23 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 24 | Well , most obviously I have learnt that what is good for me can not necessarily be applied to everyone , although I still tend to dish out unsolicited advice . |
| 25 | At the same time , we are often too busy to eat regularly , grabbing what is easiest rather than what is good for us . |
| 26 | It believes that it knows best and what is good for us and for our children . |
| 27 | Life do n't mean doing only what is good for you , Floyd . |