Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to think of the worst that could happen . |
| 2 | He kept meditating on the highest ideals and professed weakness to do anything about those ideals . |
| 3 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 4 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 5 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 6 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 7 | Even The Listener job , which he left acknowledged as the best literary editor of his day , produced a characteristic essay in self-denigration . |
| 8 | His parents fully understood his difficulties and raised no objections when he said that he wanted to live in the poorest part of South-East London for a year , to study conditions and work in a lay capacity amongst the people . |