Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 2 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 3 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 4 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 5 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 6 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |