Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 2 | On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance . |
| 3 | I reached up to the nearest branch which seemed likely to hold my weight . |
| 4 | I warn the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook — I hope that he will accept that I do so in the best possible spirit — not to be carried along by media representations of what happened at Brixton . |
| 5 | A most extraordinary ebullient , character , he was one of those lovable teddy-bears , but highly charged with emotion which spilled out at the slightest touch . |
| 6 | That was the only thing which emerged clearly from the latest survey among 19,000 people in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 7 | There has to be a force which operates truly in the best interests of the child , and there has to be recognition and understanding of the very difficult and narrow lines many social workers have to tread in dealing with the most harrowing cases . |
| 8 | Plugged into an amp the EQ takes things from bright , jangling treble to a fat bass which feeds back at the lowest volumes when the relevant slider is pushed way up . |
| 9 | For these reasons it is the delightful little Concerto which comes over with the greatest conviction though the recording acoustic is far too resonant for the essentially intimate character of the writing ; and the sound in general affords too much prominence to the continuo which booms away in a far from discreet manner . |
| 10 | The amalgamation of kingdoms was itself carried out with the greatest animosity on both sides . |
| 11 | It was warm and sunny , and for a brief time , as she cycled along to the nearest shops , she almost forgot what was to come that day . |
| 12 | Right , well say , a nice , you know just to the nearest , to the nearest erm whole number |
| 13 | Knights come first , then come DBEs , then come CBEs and so on and so forth , until you get down to the lowest award , which I think is the British Empire Medal . |
| 14 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 15 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 16 | Leicester needed the goalstart for it was the visitors who surged forward with the best of the goal chances . |
| 17 | Hailed as the next Sophia Loren , the dark-eyed Italian is set to take the fashion world by storm as she steps out in the latest clothes by rainwear company Four Seasons . |
| 18 | She marched over to the nearest tank . |
| 19 | We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers . |
| 20 | And the two who come up with the best reasons will join the Royal gathering . |
| 21 | A few at a time Martha 's companions would turn into their own yards , until at last she continued alone to the highest village in the valley , her uniform a civilised patch of blue and white against the wild green tracery of the jungle . |
| 22 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |
| 23 | But Bella Latimer , she decided , was the kind of woman who would go on getting what she wanted even in the darkest days of the war . |
| 24 | But you , you sat outside for the best part of quarter of an hour , twenty minutes , cos it was so sunny . |
| 25 | We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook . |
| 26 | Then , on the second day , we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs . |
| 27 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 28 | Still to come , we look ahead to the greatest horse race in the world . |
| 29 | May we search consistently for the best in other people . |
| 30 | In ordinary affairs , for which we aspire only to the best choice on the available information , the only assurance we need is that each veering of spontaneous reaction with expanding awareness is objectively a change for the better . |