Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 2 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 4 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 5 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 6 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 7 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 8 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 9 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 10 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 11 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 12 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 13 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 14 | ELTON John and his partner Bernie Taupin joined the ranks of the greats today after an American company paid them the biggest advance in music history . |
| 15 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 16 | Esther Allan dusted off the music and taught her the best songs from Sugar and Spite . |
| 17 | In 1986 Forbes magazine named him the richest man in America . |
| 18 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 19 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 20 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 21 | However , although Leese 's virulent anti-semitism and racial fascist beliefs made him the nearest equivalent in outlook to an English Hitler , his personality and attitude to leadership were very different . |
| 22 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 23 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 24 | Abraham bought me new clothes , gave me a new place to live , and sent me the finest food . |
| 25 | ‘ I brought you the best of what was left , ’ Simon went on . |
| 26 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 27 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 28 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 29 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 30 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |