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 . |