Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 2 | I thought you had the best of that particular discussion . ’ |
| 3 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 4 | When the borders opened up last year , they realised they had the worst . |
| 5 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 6 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 7 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 8 | But if you 've got a decent Technics he said you want the best integrated |