Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 2 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 3 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 4 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 5 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 6 | I gave her the best books |
| 7 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 8 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 9 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 10 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 11 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 12 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 13 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 14 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 15 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 16 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 17 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 18 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 19 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 20 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 21 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 22 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 23 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 24 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 25 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 26 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 27 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |
| 28 | What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun . |