Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the greatest of the spell weavers and I was the most powerful enchanter they had ever known . ’ |
| 2 | … And it seemed there ought to be music , so Esther Allan , the music teacher at the school where I was the most reluctant member of the Art Department , got roped in . |
| 3 | These last two must have felt the stirring of the soul at the sublime beauty which causes the peak experience , and because this sweetness came out of their own minds , theirs was the most intense emotion . |
| 4 | ‘ Did anyone tell you you were the most enchanting leprechaun ever ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You were the most wonderful thing I ever saw , ’ he said firmly . |
| 6 | James thought you were the most delicious creature he had ever seen . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I honed in on you because you were the most beautiful creature I 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 8 | To Pavel , and probably to many of the others who 'd fallen under her influence , she was the most uncommon criminal ever . |
| 9 | Honor thought she was the most exquisite girl she had ever seen and her heart sank lower than ever . |
| 10 | She was the most exquisite thing : in life marvellous , in the unspeakable end , heroic : and always so beautiful , so gracious . |
| 11 | ‘ She was the most fantastic woman I 'd met , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I never really got to know her She was the most obtuse person I ever met . |
| 13 | She was the most efficient secretary he had ever had and it irked him that she had made it clear that , if and when he moved , she would wish to stay at Larksoken . |
| 14 | Although she was the most recent arrival on the team , nobody seemed to question her authority . |
| 15 | She was the most girlish girl he 'd ever known . |
| 16 | Amelia McLean described how she had been " waylaid … on [ her ] way home for dinner " by Mr Evans of the W. and C.U. , who " after calling her … everything but a lady , had said she was the most unsympathetic woman in Edinburgh " . |
| 17 | She was the most beautiful girl in the entire school . |
| 18 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 19 | From stories handed down , it seems that the Frenchman saw Marama , insisted on painting her straight away , and then said she was the most beautiful woman he 'd ever seen and begged her to come and live with him . |
| 20 | But when she smiled at me like that , I thought she was the most beautiful woman in England . |
| 21 | ‘ But she was the most beautiful woman in the ancient world . ’ |
| 22 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 23 | ‘ She was the most beautiful thing I 'd ever seen , ’ says Elliott reverently . |
| 24 | There was a time after that when she was the most important thing in his life . |
| 25 | She ro did an autobiography of a education and she was the most wonderful person that you would ever wish to meet ! |
| 26 | Born of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father , she was the most wonderful storyteller . |
| 27 | The staff told us she was the most difficult lady — as far as she was concerned nothing was right . |
| 28 | Oh I 'll never forge oh she was the most miserable child that God every created she was honestly . |
| 29 | ‘ Believe me , she was the very last person I wanted to see . ’ |
| 30 | Those who remained at work were likely to find themselves increasingly isolated : Miss Brechin told me that she was the very last woman to work in Morrison & Gibb . |