Example sentences of "good [pron] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you remember how good it used to be ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'll do the best I can for him . |
| 3 | I wanted the freedom and the encouragement to do the best I could for myself and my family . |
| 4 | So it was all a hotchpotch , it was all and I had to do the the best I could for those who showed fish and that was the only way I could do it . |
| 5 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 6 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 7 | I did the best I could in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 8 | I did the best I could in the circumstances , Mr Calder , but you can hardly blame me if I find it difficult to appear besotted with your charms ! ’ |
| 9 | And Elizabeth could , like the Macleans , make the best she could of it . |
| 10 | Yer Mum 's done the best she can under the circumstances . ’ |
| 11 | So , doing the best you can for the welfare of your cat can have severe adverse effects on the welfare of wild animals . |
| 12 | You just shake your head and do the best you can for them . ’ |
| 13 | It 's partly down to trying to do the best you can for your artists . |
| 14 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 15 | I know some people say it takes time , but I think if you spend a year producing a lamb it is nice to see it sold and you do the best you can for it . |
| 16 | All you can do , if you decide to develop your spiritual self , is to do the best you can in an imperfect situation . |
| 17 | The City is difficult , you can only shift this traffic management from one place to another and do the best you can in each area , and there are cheaper ways of doing it , not erm three hundred thousand at a time . |
| 18 | ‘ Then I suggest we do the best we can for the next several hours . |
| 19 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 20 | The odds , as they well knew , were against them finishing even one tour , but war is a horrible business and we all had to do the best we could in discouraging circumstances . |
| 21 | Coun Taylor said the council would be going into details about the new budget today and early next week to make the best they could of the situation . |
| 22 | ‘ They did the best they could in the circumstances . |
| 23 | What it is about , members of the jury , is a very professional police force doing the best they could in the circumstances . |
| 24 | The pragmatist thinks judges should always do the best they can for the future , in the circumstances , unchecked by any need to respect or secure consistency in principle with what other officials have done or will do . |
| 25 | although no doubt they are doing the best they can for you Mr , erm , but I mean that 's why , that 's what I was putting to you at the beginning . |
| 26 | What was given to her , passed on to all of us , was a powerful and terrible endurance , the self-destructive defiance of those doing the best they can with what life hands out to them . |
| 27 | method is their best chance of doing the best they can with what they have got . |
| 28 | Speaking at the presentation , Sir George said : ‘ Councils have to show that they are doing the best they can with the money and other resources which they can use . ’ |
| 29 | Madra helped Ratagan with the fire , and when Riven had done the best he could with his ripped clothing he wandered about the campsite looking for firewood . |
| 30 | He emerges as a man with a big heart and a clever mind who did the best he could in difficult circumstances . |