Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 2 | I had proved myself the fittest by the mere act of survival . |
| 3 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 4 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 5 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 6 | Johnny was surely the " Billy Bishop Canadian " of World War 2 : only the war ending when it did denied him the highest award . |
| 7 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 8 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 9 | He had bought himself the latest issue of Wildlife and was immersed in an article about otters . |
| 10 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |