Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage .
2 But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way .
3 A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth .
4 Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life .
5 It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country .
6 Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible .
7 One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble .
8 They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest .
9 The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration .
10 ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her .
11 No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids .
12 He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) .
13 Erm , may I just say , that you may recall , that at the nineteen eighty-eight A G M , we agreed that they 'd be no smoking here , er , and I hope that er er , can be adhered to , er , and finally er , I have a fairly full agenda , and the officials have have sort of er , measured it to the nearest minute .
14 With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog .
15 It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) .
16 As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks .
17 Comfort piloted her to the nearest seat and hailed the waiter to order a brandy .
18 Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter .
19 Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them .
20 Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) .
21 And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits .
22 He treated her with the greatest courtesy , concerned that she should not be tired , or bored ; that the holiday should be nothing less than perfect .
23 These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida .
24 He turned instinctively against the wind , or nearly , for that way was easiest to control and fortunately it took him towards the greatest darkness .
25 He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well .
26 It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate .
27 Yet they may have made no effort to give her anywhere she can go to , having allocated a large bedroom to one of their small children and relegated her to the tiniest bedroom in the house , to which she can never withdraw unless she actually gets into bed .
28 Very deliberately , Ricci slowly rotated it into the best position for nut-cracking .
29 And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow .
30 Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home .
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