Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | His line on playing live is one of the canniest you can come across : ‘ There 's always one element that 's not quite right . |
2 | We looked at about 25 or 30 , but this is about the nicest we saw . |
3 | When I cleaned it up , I found it to be in really good condition and one of the nicest I have ever seen come out of the river . |
4 | Seriously though , Fenland people are some of the nicest you could wish to meet and they will often help you if they possibly can . |
5 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
6 | The flood of almost 3D colour and composition was one of the finest I 've ever seen for colour flow . |
7 | The flood of almost 3D colour and composition was one of the finest I 've ever seen for colour flow . |
8 | Cards on the table , Gavrilov 's reading of the first movement of the Seventh Sonata is one of the finest I 've heard — very nearly as fine as Pollini 's ( DG ) . |
9 | Promoter Andy Norman is hailing the line-up at the National Indoor Arena as the finest he has assembled in 20 years — and the best anywhere in the world this winter . |
10 | Palatine Ales is not in fact a particularly large company , but it is the largest we have used so far . |
11 | So because we were the largest we took we in conjunction with people like Redland Roof Tiles and er |
12 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
13 | The houses have one or two storeys , and are often very long — the largest I visited having twenty-four arched french windows in a row . |
14 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
15 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
16 | The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing . |
17 | So here we are , that 's what it 's like , and that 's the deepest we can go and the clearest we can get . |
18 | ‘ The ride is firm , but there 's no body roll and the engine is just about the sweetest I 've ever had . ’ |
19 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
20 | York , 54 , who guided Chrysler 's financial rebound , says he hopes to achieve a similar economic miracle at IBM , but that his decision to leave Chrysler was ‘ the toughest I 've made in my career . ’ |
21 | HIS latest film is one of the funniest he 's ever made , and his training as a stand-up comic and magician stretched over hard years on the tough American nightclub circuit . |
22 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
23 | I think it 's the longest we 've approved and |
24 | You will have to decide whether you are happier working in metric or imperial units ; it 's probably best to have a steel rule graduated in both and the longest you can have — 5m or 16ft is a useful length . |
25 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
26 | The longest he had ever stayed off was six months , at the first attempt . |
27 | The night seemed the longest he had endured . |
28 | His body took it in , took her in , and the desire which reared in him was the strongest he had ever experienced . |
29 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
30 | The new ones , I mean , the youngest they 've all got a , erm , different , they 've all got different |