Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] was the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 2 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |
| 3 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 4 | When St Bernard was instructed by the pope to preach the Second Crusade in 1146 he chose Vézelay for the site of his chief gathering — for it was the greatest centre of tourist traffic in his world ; and there again , from the pulpit of the abbey church , St Thomas Becket chose to utter his choicest thunders against the counsellors of King Henry II of England in 1166 — for it was the meeting place of all the peoples of Europe , the ideal centre for a great gesture of propaganda . |
| 5 | Coming straight at us was the biggest wave since Krakatoa . |