Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 3 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 4 | Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost . |
| 5 | Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , the abrasive and ambitious Speaker , whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis . |
| 6 | Then he lay in a Dublin hospital bed with his neck in a brace , his rugby future hanging by the merest thread . |
| 7 | Eighty per cent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries . |
| 8 | David Goldsmith looks at the latest developments in equipment technology |
| 9 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 10 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 11 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 12 | Distress is an anachronistic remedy surviving from the earliest days in the history of the lease . |
| 13 | Try crashing an electron into a gatepost and you might find that it decides of its own accord to orbit round the nearest dandelion . |
| 14 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 15 | He heard the tell-tale sound of a horse whinnying in the largest barn , and ran to unfasten the door . |
| 16 | From their figure , however , it can be extrapolated that the labelling index tended to level off , at a gastrin concentration corresponding to the lowest concentration giving maximal effect in the present study . |
| 17 | In effect the duty is merely an amalgam of fiduciary duties at common law requiring an agent to act in the best interests of his principal . |
| 18 | Having searched this field to the best of my ability I left with the intention to return at the earliest opportunity . |
| 19 | The potentiometer is a stable cermet multi-turn type to allow the high resolution setting required at the highest sensitivity . |
| 20 | Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder . |
| 21 | Driving pleasure allied to the highest levels of passenger comfort provide Safrane — Renault 's new executive challenger with the credentials for a major assault on the UK market . |
| 22 | In practice the output rises sharply when the echo returns from the nearest point on the planet but dies away slowly as echoes arrive from surrounding regions of the planet 's surface . |
| 23 | This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat . |
| 24 | In hand-to-hand combat the enemy fights against the highest WS of the chariot crew . |
| 25 | Because of this Barro treats as the best prediction that could be made by rational agents of the value of . |
| 26 | Inishowen in Co Donegal is among nearly 20 clubs sending swimmers to Lisburn , where the action begins with the youngest age group ( 10 's and under ) at 9–30am . |
| 27 | The enormous main door of the house stood open , its metal-lined bulk held by the largest safety-chain he had ever seen . |
| 28 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 29 | Isabelle nudges him and his head falls forward over the coffee table , tips of his hair brushing against the largest lump of heroin . |
| 30 | Each request for assessment will be ‘ screened ’ by an experienced member of staff and a decision made about the best type of assessment to be offered , by whom and when . |