Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ants can be kept in large glass jars filled with soil or in a wormery ( Chapter 6 ) , but to see them best you should keep them in a special kind of housing . |
| 2 | Therefore the new girl became my best friend and has been ever since ( with a few eruptions ! ) because she is a very loyal , trustworthy , non-possessive , generous and kind girl . |
| 3 | People of all shapes and sizes became my biggest threat and a vital potential source of assistance . |
| 4 | You got my best wishes , Joe . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll make me stop seeing my oldest friend , but you wo n't let your mistress go ! ’ |
| 6 | Having been Chairman of BNFL I would like to contribute as a Chairman in the future … and that , I believe , is how I can make my best contribution . |
| 7 | I could not say how very , very much I am going to miss my dearest — except that I know she will understand . |
| 8 | Convey to units concerned my warmest congratulations on a splendid operation . |
| 9 | Hearing you on the telephone just seemed to confirm my worst fears , and I did n't stop to reason things through . |
| 10 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 11 | I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers . |
| 12 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm just a friend , Sister , ’ I said , using my best middle-class tones . |
| 14 | ‘ You didna ask me for evidence , John , you sought my best judgement , and you have it . |
| 15 | Then , yet again , those Germans upset my best laid plans . |
| 16 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 17 | I would like to thank you all for your continued hard work and commitment and send my best wishes to you and your families . |
| 18 | So I tried my best and managed to get a council house for her to move into . |
| 19 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 20 | I tried my best to comfort her but she was beyond consolation . |
| 21 | Deeply ashamed of my wayward notions , I tried my best to contradict myself . |
| 22 | I just tried my best to get something else for myself . |
| 23 | ‘ It is frustrating but I tried my best and it 's no point getting angry . ’ |
| 24 | If he gave me a shagging I tried my best to get me heel of my boot down on the stair , something of that kind . |
| 25 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 26 | I tried my best . |
| 27 | I tried my hardest to explain how it had come about . |
| 28 | I popped the lot and tried my hardest to meditate . |
| 29 | I do n't stand a hope in hell of answering them all but I 'm going to try my damnedest , and to that end have missed out on most of the company parties and outings . |
| 30 | Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily ? she thought hazily . |