Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] was the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 2 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 3 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 4 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 5 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 6 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 7 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 8 | Wester Ross , Orkney and North Wales , the areas where one felt there was the strongest community spirit , supported the role of wives . |
| 9 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 10 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 11 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 12 | Carrie thought it was the saddest sound site had ever heard . |
| 13 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 14 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 15 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 16 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 17 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 18 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 19 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | Wilkinson thought it was the worst header of his career ! |
| 21 | When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't . |
| 22 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 23 | But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past . |
| 24 | Although no one yesterday was able to confirm this as a record defeat , club officials admitted it was the biggest thrashing in their memories . |
| 25 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 26 | I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley . |
| 27 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 28 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 29 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 30 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |