Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] one [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I scored one of the best goals of my career there in a Bass Irish Cup semi-final against Linfield . |
| 2 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 3 | She became one of the greatest sportswomen of the century and was stunningly beautiful to boot . |
| 4 | In Ray Wilson you had one of the best left-backs ever . |
| 5 | Add in a marvellous performance by Dewi Morris and good efforts from the other backs and you had one of the greatest running displays I 've ever seen . |
| 6 | In Roy Vernon you had one of the best-balanced and most punishing strikers of his day . |
| 7 | Thus together we became one of the lowest forms of animal life in the Royal Air Force , the most junior — a very thin single ring — but , nevertheless , Leonard Cheshire had a stamp of his very own . |
| 8 | So , we sent one of the biggest names in television , that well known pop picker Viv Lumsden to investigate . |
| 9 | There again , we had one of the best encouragements we ever had . |
| 10 | In the 70 's we had one of the best pitches in the league , so let's hope it gets sorted out . |
| 11 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
| 12 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 13 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 14 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 15 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 16 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 17 | When the uneasy initial co-operation of the authorities was broken by the oath to Joseph ( April 1809 ) Duhesme 's corrupt military government was served by Casanova : a profiteer in identity cards , ransoms , and municipal marketing , an adventurer with a mistress and a mansion , he became one of the richest , as well as the most powerful man , in occupied Barcelona . |
| 18 | By contrast 85 per cent of the pupils were said by their teachers to have no experience of Example 14 , although it produced one of the highest success rates among the lowest third . |
| 19 | It involved one of the biggest names in the rock world . |
| 20 | He was to have to wait until 1987 when , amid great grey curtains of mist and murk , he played one of the greatest of championship courses , Muirfield , by parring every hole in the last round . |
| 21 | He won the championship for a record fifth time and in winning the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring he not only won his 24th , and last , World Championship Grand Prix , but he enjoyed one of the best races of his career . |
| 22 | He thought one of the best places for meditation was ‘ by a rustic hearth and an old cradle with a baby in it , by a window overlooking a delicate green cornfield and the waving of alder bushes . ’ |
| 23 | Martyn Colbeck , natural history film-maker , had been working by the Manu river in Peru for the BBC 's Trials of Life series when he feared one of the worst trials of his life was about to begin . |
| 24 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
| 25 | ‘ It proved one of the hardest things of the entire expedition . |
| 26 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 27 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 28 | And I can say he had one of the strongest of all influences on me . |