Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sitting in the make-up chair and I felt like the ugliest piece of shit there ever was . |
| 2 | Tonight 's programme has been made with the benefit of time and I think with the best of intentions . |
| 3 | And apart from the Bohemian Rhapsody news of the rest of the European football tonight and we have the double attacking spearhead of Colin Fray and Martin Fisher at the City ground and you listening to the classiest football cover on Radio Nottingham from five past seven . |
| 4 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 5 | And she ran to the nearest ladies ' room and emerged with bleary eyes , clutching at her stomach . |
| 6 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 7 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 8 | " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " . |
| 9 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 10 | We got the coffee , he paid for it and we walked to the remotest part of the canteen , behind a sort of screen , why here I said . |
| 11 | Immediately a swarm of coolies rushed towards him , dragging their wire-wheeled rickshaws behind them , and he leaped into the nearest one with a loud whoop . |
| 12 | And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’ |
| 13 | And he pointed to the nearest cow . |
| 14 | Macmillan also left income-tax rates alone , hit cigarette-smoking and made stern noises about public expenditure ; and he presided over the highest interest rates for decades — bank rate was a horrific 5.5% . |
| 15 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 16 | And what to do for the best . |
| 17 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 18 | Raymond and I no longer share a bed , but he wakes at the slightest noise . ’ |
| 19 | It may look like a crumbling chocolate sundae but it tastes like the finest birthday cake you ever had , covered with cream and laced with rum . |