Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj -est] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It did n't affect me in the slightest at first . |
| 2 | Michelham Country Foods are at the Priory to provide you with the best of A Taste of Sussex . |
| 3 | No doubt she will also enjoy herself with the best of our manhood . ’ |
| 4 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 5 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 6 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 7 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 8 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 9 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 10 | ‘ We have a deliberate policy to involve people of all ages and this is shown in the new function room which will benefit everyone from the youngest to the oldest members of the community . ’ |
| 11 | Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity . |
| 12 | ‘ Between the cup and the lip it has pleased the Great Disposer of events to visit him with the greatest of all afflictions in the bereavement of his most affectionate wife . |
| 13 | But , then when you 've done it to the best of your ability and you ca n't really see the rewards , then you have to analyse why . |
| 14 | Luke covered the microphone with his hand and leant towards her , his lips just brushing hers in the tenderest of kisses before he whispered softly , ‘ I love you , Fran . |
| 15 | The new interest gave him the encouragement of success , to help him over the worst of his terrible despairs . |
| 16 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 17 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 18 | Cleaning myself to the best of my ability , I left the hut and set out downhill , in what I hoped was the direction of Geneva . |
| 19 | In any case the flunkey , y'pripio , was moving again , leading us to the largest of the cloud-soft couches , where a man was reclining . |
| 20 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 21 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 22 | He 'll fit you with the latest in Japanese-made static infra-red detectors . |
| 23 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 24 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 25 | Still , set it beside the earliest of the quotations , from the Webbs ' A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain , dating from 1920 , and we can see how far the Empirical Socialist view had changed . |
| 26 | It is a resort proud of its fascinating heritage which once placed it among the wealthiest of trading republics — rivalling both Venice and Genoa . |
| 27 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 28 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 29 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 30 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |