Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to think of the worst thing that Quigley had done . |
| 2 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 3 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 4 | I turned to find that somebody had capsized in the shallowest part of the river . |
| 5 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 6 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 7 | She tried to think of the simplest way of conveying this . |
| 8 | After you 'd knocked off the highest and lowest assessments of the five judges , three scores still counted . |
| 9 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 10 | She hated losing at the best of times but this was the worst . |
| 11 | She inched towards him , daring him to move before she had shaken off the latest man to accost her . |
| 12 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 13 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 14 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 15 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |
| 16 | I was interested to read what you had to say about the safest types of bedding for babies on the Solutions page in your August issue . |
| 17 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 18 | Speaking at the Co-op 's general meeting last night chairman Bill Allison said : ‘ We had to operate in the longest , deepest recession since the war . |
| 19 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 20 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 21 | Of course they had to stop at the nearest tavern for Sir John to take refreshment and S over his sword play , step by step , blow by blow . |
| 22 | They had to hassle for the best part of the day to get the machine out of the factory because , like most of these auctions , the auctioneers wanted the place cleared immediately . |
| 23 | They had passed through the blackest part of the valley now and it was a relief to see a light or two at Weem , and across the invisible river at Aberfeldy . |
| 24 | He tried to think of the worst that could happen . |
| 25 | He kept meditating on the highest ideals and professed weakness to do anything about those ideals . |
| 26 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 27 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 28 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 29 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 30 | Even The Listener job , which he left acknowledged as the best literary editor of his day , produced a characteristic essay in self-denigration . |