Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] most [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 2 | I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start . |
| 3 | I found him a most agreeable man , a sharp observer , and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order . |
| 4 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 5 | Clarissa loved dancing and found it the most exciting time of her life . |
| 6 | The matron , seeing my Lady took an interest in the place , pointed out a girl to her , named Rosanna Spearman , and told her a most miserable story : which I have n't the heart to repeat here ; for I do n't like to be made wretched without any use , and no more do you . |
| 7 | Let me not forget to mention the bakery in Waipukurau , which served us the most magnificent cream ( real cream ! ) buns filled with delicious real fruit conserve — wow ! |
| 8 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 9 | Payment by results had some obvious advantages : Marx called it the most suitable form of wage-payment for capitalism . |
| 10 | Ethel ran out of the door with the frightening single-mindedness that later made her the most successful Tiller Girl . |
| 11 | ‘ In practical terms ’ , Luxemburg 's biographer , Peter Nettl , comments , ‘ Rosa Luxemburg 's opposition to the PPS ( Polish Socialist Party ) , and its policy of self-determination made her the most efficient ally of the SPD 's ( German Social Democratic Party 's ) policy of organizational integration for minorities in Germany ’ . |
| 12 | Basil 's sensitive appreciation of Art Education in the lives of children , their teachers and in fact all people , made him a most exceptional person in the Education Department of the West Riding County Council of Yorkshire in the 1960s . |
| 13 | ‘ When — in this room after I 'd finished telling you of the singing fountain , you said , ‘ How lovely ’ and I own , I thought you the most lovely creature , in mind and body , that I had ever known . ’ |
| 14 | Bissett thought him the most brilliant man he had ever met . |
| 15 | But even so , as Ven escorted her inside to where he had a table booked , she felt him a most potent force . |
| 16 | In the conventional male mode , Kiefer conjured an opposing ‘ other ’ in order to define his ‘ self ’ , and women offered him the most adaptable image repertory for his needs ) . |
| 17 | ‘ As we looked at the range of products available , we saw that FCRS offered us the most flexible route as the basic packaged solution that could be easily maintained . ’ |
| 18 | The Yorkshire crowd gave me the most overwhelming reception , you know . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't explain , but it gave me the most terrible feeling . |
| 20 | At first the Romans consolidated their position in central Italy , moving north only in the third-century BC , when the battle of Mediolanum in 222 BC won them the most important city on the Lombardy Plain . |
| 21 | ‘ A female Solomon , ’ said Neil , sighing , and then he gave her the most charming grin , and through the ruin of his face she suddenly saw what Matey must have known — the handsome soldier-boy he had once been . |
| 22 | Soon , Jodami was being hailed a future champion after a series of bold displays as a novice stamped him the most charismatic chaser in the North . |