Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 2 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 3 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 4 | I find it in the unlikeliest places , many of which had not sold it for at least 25 years . |
| 5 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 6 | I have nothing but the highest admiration for the quality and devotion of the work they have put into the care of the plaintiff over the last six and a half years . |
| 7 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 8 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 9 | For many black people , this is the only form of protest open to them in a society which is racist and discriminatory and which consigns them to the lowest positions in the class structure . |
| 10 | Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf . |
| 11 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 12 | That the calf is afraid of death , let alone its fleeing it as the greatest of evils , seems misleadingly to ascribe to it a self-conscious grasp of death and evil , possible only of beings capable of language . |
| 13 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 14 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 15 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 16 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 17 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 18 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 19 | ‘ At last Bertha managed to reach some big , sweet-smelling myrtle bushes , and she hid herself in the thickest bush . |
| 20 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 21 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 22 | You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea . |
| 23 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 24 | But though certain extremely powerful individuals — like Kraus and his mother — enslave him , it is people , ‘ ordinary ’ folk who are to him completely extraordinary , who free him from the greatest enchanter of them all — books . |
| 25 | Everyone will be free to enjoy themselves as they wish , but we shall be arranging a programme of optional sightseeing excursions and activities on a daily basis , which will ensure you miss nothing of the best the region has to offer . |
| 26 | Could you advise me on the best type of sash cramp to buy ? |
| 27 | You see it in the best maitre d'or concierge . |
| 28 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 29 | You have nothing but the silliest of complaints against him . |
| 30 | She sat him in the biggest chair , the one he always hid behind , and looked deep into his eyes . |