Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been a measure of the little big man ; the best brought out the best in him . |
| 2 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 3 | By the door , Frank McHugh comically gulped down the last of his coffee and hurried back to his rig , leaving half a plate of bacon and scrambled eggs on the table . |
| 4 | But that extraordinary colouring , the pale , pale eyes and the black hair , clearly marked out the two of them as father and son . |
| 5 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 6 | All-over repeat patterns are very rarely repeated exactly the same on each row . |
| 7 | Termitologists have made great advances in working out how the pheromone communication system controls and coordinates a colony 's activities , but no one has yet explained how the millions of blind workers , each carrying a tiny pellet of mud , manage to construct between them such ingeniously designed , efficient and large-scale buildings . |
| 8 | It was n't his fault that powerful and doting parents had systematically brought out the worst in him . |