Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sought out the most profitable lines produced in the most efficient of their plants operating with the cheapest labour available . |
| 2 | Commission officials say that they sought out the most talented people in each field , regardless of gender or race . |
| 3 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 4 | They pulled off the seemingly impossible by defeating the French , the Americans and the Chinese . |
| 5 | THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme . |
| 6 | In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys . |