Example sentences of "he [verb] [num] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 2 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 3 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 4 | When the uneasy initial co-operation of the authorities was broken by the oath to Joseph ( April 1809 ) Duhesme 's corrupt military government was served by Casanova : a profiteer in identity cards , ransoms , and municipal marketing , an adventurer with a mistress and a mansion , he became one of the richest , as well as the most powerful man , in occupied Barcelona . |
| 5 | He was to have to wait until 1987 when , amid great grey curtains of mist and murk , he played one of the greatest of championship courses , Muirfield , by parring every hole in the last round . |
| 6 | He won the championship for a record fifth time and in winning the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring he not only won his 24th , and last , World Championship Grand Prix , but he enjoyed one of the best races of his career . |
| 7 | He thought one of the best places for meditation was ‘ by a rustic hearth and an old cradle with a baby in it , by a window overlooking a delicate green cornfield and the waving of alder bushes . ’ |
| 8 | Martyn Colbeck , natural history film-maker , had been working by the Manu river in Peru for the BBC 's Trials of Life series when he feared one of the worst trials of his life was about to begin . |
| 9 | As a matter of fact , he owns one of the largest and most innovative architectural companies in Europe . |
| 10 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 11 | And I can say he had one of the strongest of all influences on me . |