Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 2 | The ANC described the membership of the five MPs ( who were subsequently expelled from the DP ) as formalizing a " long-standing relationship which has earned them the greatest respect " and as underlining the ANC 's commitment to " a truly non-racial South Africa " . |
| 3 | All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere . |
| 4 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 5 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 6 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 7 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 8 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 9 | Whichever way it will have cost you the best part of £100 for the first survey , and this is not refundable . |
| 10 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 11 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 12 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 13 | He had bought himself the latest issue of Wildlife and was immersed in an article about otters . |
| 14 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 15 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 16 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 17 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 18 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |