Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 2 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 3 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 4 | IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) . |
| 5 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 6 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 7 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 8 | In completing the questionnaire , research students may have opted to complete parts of it in the quickest way without much thought . |
| 9 | Even today Ravenna is unique in the quality of its Byzantine work , particularly the mosaics , most of it from the finest period of the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 10 | Erm I will take those notes away with me in the strictest confidence , go through them erm work out some recommendations , how you could hit the goals that you will go for at the end of the day . |
| 11 | Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities . |
| 12 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 13 | It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in . |
| 14 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 15 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 16 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 17 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 18 | Their unfocused glance passed over him without the slightest flicker of movement or response . |
| 19 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
| 20 | Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works . |
| 21 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 22 | ‘ You ask : how do you advance the public interest , how do you provide for it in the best way ? ’ |
| 23 | Cos there was something about it in the Best magazine was n't there ? |
| 24 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 25 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 26 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |