Example sentences of "most [adj] [noun] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most political job you could seek in a political party is probably that of chairman . |
| 2 | However , at the time the security of a large firm and a well known brand appeared to be the most sensible decision I could make . |
| 3 | ‘ He always won , ’ Beaverbrook said , ‘ he always beat me — the toughest and most unscrupulous politician you could find — cold , merciless in his dislikes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Billy was the most charming person you could imagine ’ , says Clifford Henderson of Partridge Fine Arts . |
| 5 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 6 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 7 | The thought crossed her mind that perhaps they were burying her , and she silently shouted at herself not to think that , even though it was the most natural supposition she could make . |
| 8 | With his dyed hair , multiple earrings and parachute boots , he might present a formidable sight to some , but he 's one of the most amiable punks you could wish to meet . |
| 9 | Mick Daley : ‘ One of the most amiable punks you could wish to meet . ’ |
| 10 | The most useful contribution he could make was to turn up on the right day in the right uniform , cut ribbons , and make cosy speeches . |
| 11 | As I 'm not a man , it turned out to be the most useful thing I could do . ’ |
| 12 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 13 | But then between the fronds he saw a face , the most beautiful face he could have dreamed of or imagined , a still white face , with long gold lashes on pale cheeks , and a perfect pale mouth . |
| 14 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 15 | She had ground her way through part-time jobs and four years of medicine and two years of internship without complaining , without ever questioning her dream to help her fellow man in the most noble way she could imagine . |
| 16 | In 1897 Mr and Mrs Currer Briggs bought the most idyllic site they could lay their hands on and wrote to Mr Voysey the architect . |
| 17 | It 's the most damaging thing we could do to ourselves . ’ |
| 18 | To make this even more ridiculous , I decided to select the most unlikely container I could think of , so I opted for a supermarket plastic carrier bag . |
| 19 | Most of the Healthcare group asked if they could attend , and as Brenda says ‘ We ended up with the most romantic wedding you could wish for . |
| 20 | Against the farmed land , be damned , I thought , and let drive with all the most forceful arguments I could lay my tongue to . |
| 21 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 22 | He said that money was no object — those were his actual words — and he wanted the most expensive teeth I could provide . |
| 23 | Pain was the most expensive thing you could buy . |
| 24 | How would you feel if you knitted yourself a nice little doll , out of the most expensive yarn you could buy , and spent the best years of your life working on it to make it as perfect as you could — then it suddenly got up and walked away and turned into something different ? ’ |
| 25 | This really is the most wretched country you could imagine . |
| 26 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 28 | And I decided that next day I would draw an honest sketch of myself , and then one of Blanche Ingram , painting the most lovely face I could imagine , according to Mrs Fairfax 's description . |
| 29 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |