Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 2 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 3 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 4 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 5 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 6 | Carrie thought it was the saddest sound site had ever heard . |
| 7 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 8 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 9 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 10 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 11 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 12 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 13 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 14 | Wilkinson thought it was the worst header of his career ! |
| 15 | When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't . |
| 16 | But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past . |
| 17 | Although no one yesterday was able to confirm this as a record defeat , club officials admitted it was the biggest thrashing in their memories . |
| 18 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 19 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 20 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |
| 21 | Bernstein recently said it 's the best Salome he 's ever seen . |
| 22 | off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there . |
| 23 | Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here |
| 24 | yeah , he said it 's the best move I ev he said I do n't , the lads do n't give me any trouble he says I 'm fair with them and they 're fair with me |
| 25 | Come on come on you said you said it 's the worst year of your life the w year you wear a toupee , why ? |
| 26 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 27 | The storm broke as I drove past Woomera on the way back to Port Augusta and locals there said it was the heaviest rain for nearly 200 years . |
| 28 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 29 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 30 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |