Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he speaks an aside to us , in his own person , it is in verse : He continues in their prose , but when he wants to express his respect for them and offer his services , he moves up to verse : ‘ I 'll show thee the best springs ; I 'll pluck thee berries ; /I 'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough ’ ( 160f . ) . |
| 2 | Beautiful Swaledale I love thee the best , |
| 3 | To Ajax he says : ‘ I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an ’ I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece' ( 27ff . ) . |
| 4 | I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece . |
| 5 | PEOPLE send me the funniest letters . |
| 6 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 7 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 8 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 9 | Alexandra said , ‘ You will both think me the poorest — sport , but I 'm going to refuse . ’ |
| 10 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 11 | ‘ When I say to people that Edward Wood [ Irwin 's name before his ennoblement on appointment to the viceroyalty ] seems to me the highest kind of Englishman now in politics , many of them ’ , Begbie admitted , ‘ look surprised and perplexed . ’ |
| 12 | And your function is designed as , when I give you a number , you give me the nearest integer , which is just above it . |
| 13 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 14 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 15 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 16 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 18 | He is to me the greatest genius of our century . |
| 19 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 20 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 21 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 22 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 23 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 24 | If St Pancras can in fact be rehabilitated then that will give me the greatest pleasure , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) on the Lower Tier of the Roaches is for me the finest slab climb on gritstone . |
| 26 | Abraham bought me new clothes , gave me a new place to live , and sent me the finest food . |
| 27 | Q Could you please tell me the best method of fixing turned wooden handles to cutlery blanks ? |
| 28 | What looks like a fairly minor scrape would cost me the best part of a planned skiing trip at Christmas to repair if this was n't a company car . |
| 29 | Working and looking after children part-time gives me the best of both worlds . |
| 30 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |