Example sentences of "she the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 Nor had she the slightest desire to become involved in her aunt 's quarrel .
2 It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember .
3 Said treasurer called her the SILLIEST woman he knew …
4 To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch .
5 Was writing to her the nearest he could be ?
6 Could he give her the best of food or pay for a doctor if she fell sick or buy her fine clothes or anythin' she fancies ?
7 Esther Allan dusted off the music and taught her the best songs from Sugar and Spite .
8 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 .
9 On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so .
10 I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 .
11 Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win .
12 ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch .
13 Rosita was a bit old but she kept her body in good condition and the men liked her the best .
14 I gave her the best books
15 Doctors said it would take her the best part of a year to recover .
16 The British Government lifted red tape restrictions so that a charity here could fly in the eight-month-old girl , and give her the best chance of survival .
17 I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’
18 Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking !
19 But , ‘ I love you , Sally-Anne , ’ he had said one day , giving her the lightest of butterfly kisses .
20 She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences .
21 Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes .
22 What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun .
23 Though it would be a great personal sadness to have to do it , it would nevertheless give her the greatest satisfaction to see Kirsty settled in a warm and loving family .
24 Jean then set about teaching her the finest French ‘ Par quoi ele mout chier le tint ’ ( ‘ for which she held him very dear ’ ) .
25 Nothing her eye fell upon aroused in her the slightest flicker of interest , except a bulletin board with removable plastic letters which declared , under the day 's date : J. Pringle & Sons welcomes Dr Robin Penrose , Rummidge University . ’
26 He would do anything to save her the slightest inconvenience .
27 Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person .
28 JENNIFER CAPRIATI , the 13-year-old American prodigy , is joining the professional ranks on a contract almost certain to make her the youngest millionairess in the sport .
29 Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones .
30 It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember .
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