Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 2 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 3 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 4 | He 'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman — any decent woman . |
| 5 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 6 | Users are , however , urged always to use the latest version of the header when entering modules . |
| 7 | I worked hard to get the best job in the world . |
| 8 | The outcome was , however , a foregone conclusion ; at no point did there exist the slightest possibility that the Law would not be approved . |
| 9 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 10 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 11 | Official despair was summed up in a letter from Sir Edward Howarth , Director of the National Camps Corporation ( which ran the schools ) to N. D. Bosworth Smith of the Board of Education , on 13 August 1942 ; Howarth had just read the latest report on the children 's growth rates and commented : |
| 12 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 13 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 14 | Never mind , Mark had still won the biggest prize of all . |
| 15 | All we know is that Gunhilda was a woman of great talent and charm , for — in addition to having fascinated two powerful barons — she had also established the closest friendship with Anselm of any woman known to us . |
| 16 | Anything less than a straight A disappointed me , and even when I had clearly gained the best grade in the class — a slightly alleviating factor-I still told myself that it was n't good enough . |
| 17 | The puzzled head-scratching continued in some quarters , but helpless shrugging had now become the latest craze . |
| 18 | For the first six months , those who were further advanced towards full Marinehood had simply treated the latest Necromundan intake as juveniles , as sprats who might or might not grow into sharks . |
| 19 | Taylor had earlier witnessed the worst piece of defensive football that Des Walker has produced in 48 appearances . |
| 20 | Even if they had never contemplated the smallest act of resistance themselves , the notion of FAKINTIL in the hills with their leader had offered the possibility of freedom one day . |
| 21 | Gina had never had the slightest bit of interest in his writing . |