Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we almost enjoyed the Great Escape from Seve Ballesteros who followed Paul Azinger into the Mickey Mouse blue-dyed water which made this the greatest spectator show on earth … |
| 2 | We found one the best value by far for us — The Exeter Hospital Aid Society . |
| 3 | Maybe it was true that the Devil got all the best lines . |
| 4 | From Nurse de Wint , Daisy heard all the hottest bits of inside Cas. gossip . |
| 5 | Just when he thought all the best girls loved a baldie . |
| 6 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 7 | I used to be a partner in a wine merchants , and when we sold up I took all the best stuff . |
| 8 | Instead she nominated some the sexiest men in the entertainment world . |
| 9 | That gave one the best financial returns . |
| 10 | The Substitute flipped open the latest of the pile of newspapers on the Captain 's desk . |
| 11 | You 're saying erm as if to say , Melanie you got the message across but by by excluding you you lot she said all the best people . |
| 12 | Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important . |
| 13 | ‘ It had all the best things about being at school , like the chumminess , but there were no standards to keep to . |
| 14 | ‘ A Bit of a Smash in Madras ’ , told in the words of an English employee of a company in the east , had all the best qualities of his prose : pace , realism ( Connolly was amazed to learn that he had never been in India ) , exact rendering of the spoken word . |