Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [det] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With us he is relaxed , amusing and always considerate , urging us all to the highest achievements . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Do come and tell me all about the latest fashions in London . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They know when to knock it to the corners , when to play it short , when to feed the strikers and they do it all with the highest quality . |
| 8 | By contrast ‘ Archiv Galleria ’ gives us some of the classiest presentation in the business . |
| 9 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |