Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then perhaps , sell them to the highest bidder . ’ |
| 2 | In other words , management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder . |
| 3 | So we do have a problem and and we need to grasp that the a conclusion talking about rolling programme we are concerned about resources we 're , we 're , we 're concerned about using them to the best advantage . |
| 4 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 5 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 6 | ‘ We must also fight for the interests of British business in world markets and provide them with the best environment in which they can compete and succeed . ’ |
| 7 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 8 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 9 | Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind . |
| 10 | They will direct you to the nearest telephone which is free of charge . |
| 11 | Listening to tapes of bird calls will help you identify unseen birds too and help direct you to the best place to stand and look for them . |
| 12 | At Club 18–30 we always aim to provide you with the best holiday possible , but in the unlikely event that a problem should arise , we would ask you to contact your Club rep so that we can resolve the matter on the spot . |
| 13 | Under a system of ‘ generic substitution ’ , even if your doctor wrote Inderal your chemist would be obliged to provide you with the cheapest form of that product , irrespective of the manufacturer , irrespective of the country of origin . |
| 14 | He had manoeuvred her just right , pressing her into the tightest corner , standing squarely in front of her so that she had no choice but to stare into his dark , angry face . |
| 15 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 16 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 17 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 18 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 19 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 20 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 21 | That will worry hon. Members on both sides of the House , and we should discuss it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 22 | He had watched her apply a smear of eye-black below her lower lashes , then dust it with the palest face-powder until her eyes appeared extra large and dark-rimmed . |
| 23 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 24 | If you use terry nappies , wash them on the hottest cycle of the washing machine . |
| 25 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 26 | Certainly the tabular method of presenting results does not show them in the best light and the use of graphs would have made them much more accessible . |
| 27 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 28 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 29 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 30 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |