Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was the [adj -est] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 2 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 3 | Both Bryan Robson and Alex Ferguson said it was the best they had ever seen a Wimbledon side play — it makes a change to get credit when it 's due . ’ |
| 4 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |
| 5 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |