Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 32 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 33 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 34 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 35 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 36 | We considered gas , electricity and oil , and natural gas offered us the best benefits , ’ said Mike MacCormack , Administrator at Dunster Castle . |
| 37 | Seeing that ruling railroaded through made it the saddest day of my life . |
| 38 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 39 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 40 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 41 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 42 | He said he liked us and wanted us to come back , though he liked me the best … |
| 43 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 44 | ‘ Royal Gait gave me the best day of my racing career at Cheltenham last March , ’ he added . |
| 45 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 47 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 48 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 49 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 50 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 51 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 52 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 53 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 54 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 55 | Rosita was a bit old but she kept her body in good condition and the men liked her the best . |
| 56 | I gave her the best books |
| 57 | What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun . |
| 58 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 59 | He gave her the slowest , steadiest smile he could manage . |
| 60 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |