Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 2 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 3 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 4 | Main made me the most incredible clothes . |
| 5 | Meryl wrote to tell us of Lena 's general kindness , saying she found her the most helpful and patient person she knew . |
| 6 | ‘ Bad cooks — and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen — have delayed human development longest and impaired it the most ’ . |
| 7 | Clarissa loved dancing and found it the most exciting time of her life . |
| 8 | I came here briefly last year and found it the most comfortable of cities to walk about in , so I 'm here for two months to learn Spanish . ’ |
| 9 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 10 | so you just wan na revisit it and say oh I 'm sure you found this document has been really useful this evening and out of those five areas we discussed , you might wan na consolidate it a bit , which was the one that excited you the most and that 's your retirement savings you know |
| 11 | But it was the knowledge that he 'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most . |
| 12 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 13 | He judged her the more harshly , and was the more hurt by his judgement , because he still worshipped her . |
| 14 | Oh , you telephoned me the very next night from Prague , ’ she remembered , as too she remembered without difficulty , ‘ I thought you might have rung in connection with that wretched , abominable interview , but you were so bad-tempered … ’ |
| 15 | I showed him the continually growing pile of newspapers I was conscientiously accumulating in my sitting-room . |
| 16 | Let me not forget to mention the bakery in Waipukurau , which served us the most magnificent cream ( real cream ! ) buns filled with delicious real fruit conserve — wow ! |
| 17 | But the thing he most lacked in Salzburg was the scope to exercise his powers as composer of opera , the genre which interested him the most . |
| 18 | I 'd cleaned the spurious wounds and known humiliation , shame and hopelessness and for those very reasons , loved her the more . |
| 19 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 20 | She was a shrewd lady and not over-generous with praise , so , when it came , he appreciated it the more . |
| 21 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 22 | Payment by results had some obvious advantages : Marx called it the most suitable form of wage-payment for capitalism . |
| 23 | ‘ In practical terms ’ , Luxemburg 's biographer , Peter Nettl , comments , ‘ Rosa Luxemburg 's opposition to the PPS ( Polish Socialist Party ) , and its policy of self-determination made her the most efficient ally of the SPD 's ( German Social Democratic Party 's ) policy of organizational integration for minorities in Germany ’ . |
| 24 | Ethel ran out of the door with the frightening single-mindedness that later made her the most successful Tiller Girl . |
| 25 | He designed for others ( costumes for Diaghilev and embroidery for Schiaparelli ) , but he also ‘ designed ’ himself ; his unquenchable desire for fame and his talent for self-publicity made him the most photographed man in Paris . |
| 26 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 27 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
| 28 | Besides birds , which obviously fascinated me the most , there were many kinds of spiders , ants , termites , bees and other insects in the forest , but the species that we enjoyed collecting were beautiful butterflies , dragonflies and cicadas . |
| 29 | ‘ When — in this room after I 'd finished telling you of the singing fountain , you said , ‘ How lovely ’ and I own , I thought you the most lovely creature , in mind and body , that I had ever known . ’ |
| 30 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |