Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 2 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 3 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 4 | As Ronni chose one by the nearest window , he repeated his question . |
| 5 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 6 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 7 | Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity . |
| 8 | Comfort piloted her to the nearest seat and hailed the waiter to order a brandy . |
| 9 | Charlotte lowered herself into the nearest chair and watched Ursula lean slowly back against the window-sill , one hand grasping the edge tightly while the other held her cigarette . |
| 10 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 11 | Smith absented himself for the shortest possible time during the annual 1st Glasgow Company camp at Tighnabruaich in July 1909 to receive his knighthood in London . |