Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 4 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be better , mademoiselle , for me to take you to the nearest syndicat d'initiative . |
| 6 | However , the two sisters telephoned Airdrie police station after friends in the Monklands area contacted them to tell them of the latest developments in the case . |
| 7 | This is perhaps understandable , but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom . |