Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 2 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 3 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 4 | They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues . |
| 5 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 6 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 7 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 8 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 9 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 10 | With us he is relaxed , amusing and always considerate , urging us all to the highest achievements . |
| 11 | ‘ The Society can help keep them abreast of the latest news and put them in touch with others who have similar interests . ’ |
| 12 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 13 | We hope that this Update will keep you abreast of the latest developments in assessment and related issues . |
| 14 | Even now , I consider it one of the best machines ever made . |
| 15 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 16 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 17 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 18 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 19 | Mill Reefs victory had proved him one of the greatest European racehorses of the age . |
| 20 | I find it one of the fastest most exciting games about ! |
| 21 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 22 | Do come and tell me all about the latest fashions in London . ’ |
| 23 | He had to be patient , but his wish finally came true last year , when at the age of 40 , his work as a sports photographer brought him face-to-face with the biggest desert of them all — the awe-inspiring Sahara . |
| 24 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 25 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 26 | If it does decide on Swindon , it would make it one of the biggest re-locations to the town . |
| 27 | Only last year the four-star Tiroler Adler underwent an extensive renovation that made it one of the best hotels in Kirchberg . |
| 28 | The internal length of this ‘ new cathedral ’ , 357 feet , made it one of the longest churches in Britain and certainly the greatest in Scotland . |
| 29 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |
| 30 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |