Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see Dad in a black suit and tie — even a black waistcoat with three black buttons — and he looks deadest of all . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll take Gary first — he looks bravest . ’ |
| 3 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 4 | The Invention I like best is the one after the one he loves best — he loves the fifth , and I the sixth . |
| 5 | Apollinaire pointed out that Boccioni 's best works were those in which he came nearest to recent works by Picasso which he had seen in Paris . |
| 6 | He said that all he had done was run how he knew best and that he had kept totally relaxed by not bothering about anybody else . |
| 7 | At this stage , Benji thought he knew best and was busy anticipating Katharine 's aids , resulting in an impressive series of three-time changes ! |
| 8 | He did n't know how to cope with someone who was nice to him all the time because all the other people that he knew best ( including his parents ) had always been unkind to him . |
| 9 | Klein fought the Germans with what he knew best — stamps . |
| 10 | The Doctor muttered that he knew best and that life was rarely logical . |
| 11 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 12 | Derek Jefferson was there doing what he did best — the hard sell . |
| 13 | He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . |
| 14 | For now Mr Gorbachev is just managing to continue what he does best : keeping his show on the road . |
| 15 | He should be left to do what he does best — sing . |
| 16 | In this way the haulier spends as little time as possible on the matter and is free to get on with what he does best — haulage . |
| 17 | Redford , looking craggy and bemused , has thankfully jettisoned the po-faced sermonising of such bloomers as Havana and returned to what he does best : sprinkling an intelligent script with finely tuned , anarchic quips and exhibiting twinkling vulnerability to the ladies . |
| 18 | More songs with words , the sort that he likes best : ‘ Mexicali Rose ’ , ‘ When it 's Springtime in the Rockies ’ , ‘ It Happened in Monterey , . |
| 19 | He seems later to have returned ; possibly an attempt on the throne was being planned when he died , for the C text 's statement that Cnut afterwards had him killed is followed by Florence , who adds that he was betrayed by those he held dearest . |
| 20 | BITTER MOON In which Roman Polanski returns to the stuff he knows best ; absurdist slapstick , sexual perversion and girls who look younger than they really are . |