Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 2 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 3 | He seemed to have not the slightest interest in what she was saying . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're hunting Burythorpe way today , ’ she said — Nora , who claimed to take not the slightest interest in anything the Lord Middleton 's did ! |
| 5 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
| 6 | Once , she did slide just the briefest look that way — to find Matthew , rather than being happily engrossed in entertaining his giggly companion , staring blackly right at her . |
| 7 | The first being that he had driven such motor cars before , and the second that he had consumed only the barest minimum of champagne . |
| 8 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 9 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
| 10 | Doc Threadneedle had used only the best scav medtech from the Thalamus Corp . |
| 11 | His own hair was combed out over his shoulders , and for make-up he had used only the faintest trace of kohl . |
| 12 | It had seemed to Morse , at that moment , that the dull eyes of Hodges had betrayed not the slightest suspicion of Morse 's susceptibility . |
| 13 | Bush , the man who could not handle domestic politics , could not cope with his Republican Party in the budget , had displayed not the slightest interest in the worsening problems of poverty in the United States , could be freed to play war . |
| 14 | Robin Cook , the shadow trade and industry secretary , said the Government had put forward the biggest tax increases for any Budget in history and described it as a ‘ Budget of failure and a Budget of cheats ’ . |
| 15 | It could n't have been anything else but Dad had put out the best wood the first time ; some of the rest was rotten . |
| 16 | Failing that they had to trudge down the nearest side streets with their suitcases , knock on doors at random asking whether they took theatricals . |
| 17 | ‘ Said she wanted to find out the latest angle on the police battle against drugs . ’ |