Example sentences of "he [vb past] [det] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ATrotskyist ‘ dur ’ of the old school , Healy 's finest hour was the Socialist Labour League , into which he recruited some of the best British communists disillusioned with the Soviet Union after Hungary . |
| 2 | He followed this with the unkindest cut of all : ‘ Or is it that he is afraid I will ask him for money ? ’ |
| 3 | There is no particular season that gives the best ‘ air ’ , but although there may be more ‘ heavenly blue ’ in June he observed some of the finest atmosphere in September and October . |
| 4 | Ken was delighted to have completed the walk , despite inclement weather conditions he said he saw some of the best scenery in the British Isles . |
| 5 | It may be that he saw this as the best means of curtailing a war that was tearing apart Christian Spain . |
| 6 | Again he occupied some of the highest posts in the land . |
| 7 | Thomas Carlisle was er one of the writers in the nineteenth century who was very keen on this business of being strong and silent and a productive worker and a and a competent breadwinner and he advocated this as the best way of being a man . |