Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain .
4 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 .
5 Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity .
6 Comfort piloted her to the nearest seat and hailed the waiter to order a brandy .
7 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 .
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