Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [be] the [adj -est] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 2 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 3 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 4 | As far as we believe it is the best thing for the school . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 're the meanest thing on this earth , Carrie Willow . |
| 7 | ‘ We all think it 's the best thing for you , to see something of life beyond the dale . ’ |
| 8 | They have a filing system , and the procedure for it which is about two pages is highly efficient , and the engineers think it 's the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 9 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |