Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his stay in Istanbul he was treated with the greatest respect by his former students , among whom are mentioned three important muderrises of the city , two from the Sahn and one from the Murad Pasa medrese . |
| 2 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 3 | He was inexperienced and little known before he was propelled into the highest office by his friends ' ambition for him and by the deadlock between Long and Chamberlain in 1911 . |
| 4 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 5 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 6 | In the morning Bicker was ill-tempered when he was told of the latest addition to the company , but Ratagan was pleased . |
| 7 | The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field . |
| 8 | ‘ We first chatted on a roller skating rink , where he was chosen as the best boy skater , and I was the best girl . |
| 9 | At his own request he was buried in the nearest church in his former diocese , at Frome , in a tomb without an inscription and surrounded by a rail . |
| 10 | We are like Hans Christian Anderson 's tale of the Emperor who believed he was clothed in the finest garments — but all the time he was naked . |
| 11 | Dougal was chasing a forlorn hope ; and he was n't even sure that he was going by the best route . |