Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 2 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 3 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 4 | The Divine Fire ( 1904 ) , which sold as a best seller in the United States , initiated her breakthrough as a novelist . |
| 5 | On certain days , it was said , a tramcar of unusual design was seen circulating slowly along the lines which passed through the poorest and most deprived slums in the city . |
| 6 | When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter . |
| 7 | Instead , he proposed a package which provided for the highest degree of democratization permitted under the Basic Law , the colony 's Constitution which had been approved by China in 1990 . |
| 8 | The ground dropped sharply beneath us as we bounced off the nearest trunk . |
| 9 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 10 | He criticised the attitude of Scottish Office ministers to what he described as the gravest crisis in employment Scotland has faced since the war . |
| 11 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 12 | Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield . |
| 13 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |
| 14 | While Enzo Ferrari always had the ability to attract the best drivers in the world , including the one he regarded as the best of all — the legendary Italian Tazio Nuvolari — the one man he never managed to get was Britain 's Stirling Moss . |
| 15 | Visitors to a major stamp fair in Brackenhoe School , Marton Road , Middlesbrough , today will have a chance to win a copy of a Victorian Penny Black regarded as the oldest in the world in a raffle . |
| 16 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 17 | He promptly turned off the by-pass and headed for the nearest hospital . |
| 18 | Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums . |
| 19 | I discarded my unfamiliar new slinky satin pyjamas for my familiar old sweater and jeans and headed for the nearest shops . |
| 20 | Abandoning an untouched plate of food , she headed for the nearest door . |
| 21 | The , finally remembering all that I had been told , I capsized myself and grabbed onto the canoe and paddle and headed for the nearest bank . |
| 22 | Arrears on direct taxes , and especially redemption dues , constantly rose despite the harshest punitive measures , including flogging and property confiscation . |
| 23 | As they came closer , I moved into the darkest corner of the hut . |
| 24 | He moved into the farthest room , which had a tiny square of window set in its far wall and overlooking the rear driveway . |
| 25 | I lay on my fourposter ready to bemoan what had happened but the next minute I rolled over and sank into the deepest sleep . |
| 26 | Few , if any , rose from the lowest rank , but nonetheless there was a career path open to prison governors to progress through the intermediate rank of Assistant Commissioner to a full Commissionership . |
| 27 | It contained the smiling faces of the respective captains , Ireland 's Phil Danaher and New Zealand 's Sean Fitzpatrick , with the question ‘ Whose Irish eyes will be smiling after today 's test ? ’ posed in the largest of poster type . |
| 28 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 29 | ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 30 | All 39 hands perished in the worst shipping disaster in Teesside 's history . |