Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has graded these goals in terms of difficulty ; she starts with the easiest things first . |
| 2 | They 're simply irresistible , says Graham Rice , as he looks at the best types to grow |
| 3 | I mean , it can turn gold into copper while at the same time it is still gold , it makes men rich by destroying their possessions , it allows the weak to walk fearlessly among thieves , it passes through the strongest doors to leach the most protected treasuries . |
| 4 | It wallows in the worst excesses of sentimentality and adopts a moral tone that condemns and condones misbehaviour in the same breath . |
| 5 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 6 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 7 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |