Act in one's own or everybody's best interest.
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Examples for "do well "
Examples for "do well "
1 However, we must concentrate on what we truly do well , he said.
2 Every opportunity, you want to come through and want to do well .
3 That's a lesson investors in new technology would do well to note.
4 OPINION:My Ennahda party is tipped to do well in Tunisia's historic election.
5 And of course to score goals and do well against Manchester United.
1 Perry won video of the year and Gaga had best female video.
2 It was a feeling she had best get used to, she decided.
3 You had best do all that you can to prevent further deaths.
4 What you may, think of us had best be kept to yourself.
5 And now I reckon we had best get in atween our blankets.
6 And now, sir, perhaps I had best show you to your rooms.
7 Once round it we had best turn her head to the rocks.
8 So we had best lose no time in getting out of Leith.
9 You had best get away from here as quickly as you can.
10 If one rises early, all had best rise early; and so on.
11 No, Ned, I think you had best return here in the ship.
12 Perhaps I had best be alone while I examine the other documents.
13 Yes, I had best give him one of my daughters in marriage.
14 We had best get from under the trees, for all the hail.
15 Martindale is asleep, sir; you had best not go in,' said she.
16 He got the driver and stood wondering where he had best begin.
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This collocation consists of: Had best through the time
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