Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 2 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 3 | I was hoping for the best , never believing this sort of thing could happen to my own little horse . |
| 4 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 5 | Because the most celebrated of these — the Trianon — was at first full , I was put into the second-best , the Novotel . |
| 6 | In no time I was rolling with the best of them and filling the intervals between wines by chewing a morsel of cheese . |
| 7 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 8 | All knew that they would have to pass through what has been described as a maelstrom , and that they would have to rely on the seamanship of their coxswain to reach the relative safety of open water ; there would be no second chance in conditions which were described as the worst in living memory . ’ |
| 9 | At the end of the trial period all the diaries are collated , most importance being attached to those effects which were produced in the greatest number of provers . |
| 10 | As you might well expect , Microsoft Windows played a key role at the COMDEX exhibition , a single section of which was dedicated to the largest ever demonstration of third-party Windows applications . |
| 11 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |
| 12 | These cottagers worked for middlemen known as baghosiers who were linked with the largest employers in town or with small rural factories nearby . |
| 13 | His enemies in the Party , who were numbered among the brightest and the best , suggested unkindly that his libido was turbo-assisted , and that he traded in his women after two years . |
| 14 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 15 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 16 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |
| 17 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 18 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 19 | She was rushed to the nearest hospital . |
| 20 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 21 | She was filled with the greatest apprehension about the next couple of days . |
| 22 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 23 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 24 | And then , unexpectedly , she was assailed by the strangest feeling that a greater force than Aunt Bertha had sent her to this place . |
| 25 | When she took over as First Lady four years ago , she was hailed as the freshest breath of air to hit Washington in years . |
| 26 | All eyes in the room were watching the stranger — except for a pair belonging to Rincewind the wizard , who was sitting in the darkest comer nursing a mug of very small beer . |
| 27 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 28 | We were led into the closest touch with the African Doctor through this period . |
| 29 | The cow disappeared and never returned , and the evil one was turned into the tallest stone in the circle . |
| 30 | They had a good past and a reasonable future , but they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century and an unrealistic exchange rate , which lost them export markets and provided further competition in their home markets . |