Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 2 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 3 | Keep them out of the way , take them through the ugliest country you can find , confess them the miserable things they are , and spend nothing on them but for safety and speed … |
| 4 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 5 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 6 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 7 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 8 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 9 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 10 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 11 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 12 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me about the Highest Science . ’ |
| 14 | TELL ME ABOUT THE SKIPFEST . |
| 15 | The nameplate Preston Guild which can be yours for the highest bid . |
| 16 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 17 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 18 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 19 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 20 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 21 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 22 | However , the two sisters telephoned Airdrie police station after friends in the Monklands area contacted them to tell them of the latest developments in the case . |
| 23 | Everyone will be free to enjoy themselves as they wish , but we shall be arranging a programme of optional sightseeing excursions and activities on a daily basis , which will ensure you miss nothing of the best the region has to offer . |
| 24 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 25 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 26 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 27 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 28 | Smith absented himself for the shortest possible time during the annual 1st Glasgow Company camp at Tighnabruaich in July 1909 to receive his knighthood in London . |
| 29 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 30 | But Jane insists she 's still a Gazza fan … and that no-one would be happier than her if he put his troubles behind him and established himself as the best , as well as the most talked about , footballer in the world . |