Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Court of the Citadel of Famagusta was one hundred and sixty feet long , and built to accommodate the grandest of ceremonials . |
| 2 | She heard the sound of a key turning in the lock and she sat , the hand holding her pen motionless above the paper , hardly breathing as she strained to catch the slightest of sounds from below . |
| 3 | B. Managers tried to find the best places for iron and steel works , in order to keep transport costs as low as possible . |
| 4 | Jill , charged to find the oldest building in town , located one of the few pre-earthquake buildings in downtown Jackson Square , part of the financial district . |
| 5 | He stopped to inspect the latest Piaget watches and was tempted to buy one for Susan . |
| 6 | The acceptance of the ‘ two Germanies ’ and of a divided Berlin helped remove the gravest threat to peace and stability in central Europe . |
| 7 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 8 | This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium . |
| 9 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 10 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 11 | I just tried to do the best I could . |
| 12 | However , his indisposition was short-lived for in the foursomes later he helped return the lowest gross of 96 , being runners-up to the Club 's Captain and Miss E. Simmons . |
| 13 | Just eleven players since 1905 have appeared in Palace colours more often than Vince but , in reviewing his career with us , one is left with the feeling that , while it promised to climb the highest peaks of success , it in fact merely reached the approaches . |
| 14 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 15 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 16 | England 's retiring manager Micky Stewart promised to investigate the latest row at Uxbridge last Sunday but that is unlikely to affect the £15,000 winter contract already offered to the country 's top players . |
| 17 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 18 | It was under Somes 's sole ownership in the 1830s that the firm rose to become the largest in England . |
| 19 | In municipal elections held in 55 communes and in provincial elections in La Spezia ( Liguria ) on Dec. 14-15 the federalist Northern League rose to become the largest party in northern Italy , and increased its support in central Italy , at the expense of the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties , whose support was halved in the north . |
| 20 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 21 | ‘ We tried to make the best of it but it was so bad that was impossible , ’ said Brian . |
| 22 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 25 | With Moscow still actively seeking to destabilize the western democracies during the thirties , Soviet calls for collective security ( 1934–39 ) against Nazi expansionism were viewed with acute suspicion and the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 seemed to confirm the worst . |
| 26 | And I always remember he said said to me , he 'd placed the biggest orders for pencils , of course in them , there were no ball pens , er he he received that from the London County Council by accident . |
| 27 | The elephant not only pipped dolphin and tiger to the post to emerge as overall winner , but also seemed to attract the greatest loyalty in voters . |
| 28 | ‘ Everyone was frantic to get out but no one seemed to know the quickest way . |
| 29 | Sir William seemed to encompass the worst of every world , somehow . |
| 30 | But my ignorance was not only mental torture , but my body seemed to suffer the intensest agony . |