Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me .
2 When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me .
3 I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age .
4 When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't .
5 But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest .
6 I thought I was the greatest .
7 I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard .
8 She thought he was the handsomest of them all .
9 She said it was the best one she 'd ever done .
10 Come on come on you said you said it 's the worst year of your life the w year you wear a toupee , why ?
11 ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall .
12 ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success .
13 When we won it was the biggest race .
14 Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them .
15 ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge .
16 Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily .
17 We saw him in action in South Africa for the World XV in 1989 and the guys who faced him said he is the best in the business . ’
18 Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away .
19 But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past .
20 Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job .
21 He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen !
22 off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there .
23 Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here
24 yeah , he said it 's the best move I ev he said I do n't , the lads do n't give me any trouble he says I 'm fair with them and they 're fair with me
25 He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’
26 He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats .
27 When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position .
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