Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the Echo today : ‘ Hopefully I 'm looking at the best year of my life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 4 | I was hoping for the best , never believing this sort of thing could happen to my own little horse . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because the most celebrated of these — the Trianon — was at first full , I was put into the second-best , the Novotel . |
| 7 | In no time I was rolling with the best of them and filling the intervals between wines by chewing a morsel of cheese . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | YOU ARE INVITED TO THE BIGGEST CANINE BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER |
| 10 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 11 | IN YOUR OWN INTEREST YOU ARE ADVISED IN THE STRONGEST TERMS TO CHECK WITH OPERATORS THE INFORMATION GIVEN HEREIN AND ANY OTHER MATTERS WHICH YOU WISH TO RAISE BEFORE MAKING YOUR BOOKING . |
| 12 | You are surrounded by the latest edition of the N C V O News , so you know that this is the last occasion . |
| 13 | When you 're dealing with the smallest cogs in a ‘ million pound train-set ’ which in any case will not be operational for decades , how can you think to exchange these with a human life ? |
| 14 | From the plush Connolly hide leather sofa and chairs in the living room to the Bang and Olufsen stereo , and remote control television complete with video , you 're surrounded by the HIGHEST QUALITY . |
| 15 | ’ — then you 're talking of the worst catcher ever not signed by the New York Giants . ’ |
| 16 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 19 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 22 | She was rushed to the nearest hospital . |
| 23 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 24 | She was filled with the greatest apprehension about the next couple of days . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 27 | And then , unexpectedly , she was assailed by the strangest feeling that a greater force than Aunt Bertha had sent her to this place . |
| 28 | When she took over as First Lady four years ago , she was hailed as the freshest breath of air to hit Washington in years . |
| 29 | We are hoping for the best for Over The Road , who has shown no signs of suffering any virus at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . |