Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 2 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 3 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 4 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair . |
| 7 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 8 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 9 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 10 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 11 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 12 | Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity . |
| 13 | These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida . |
| 14 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 15 | Comfort piloted her to the nearest seat and hailed the waiter to order a brandy . |
| 16 | The range and quality of Jenks 's contribution placed him among the foremost writers on international law of his generation . |
| 17 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |