Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 2 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 3 | Finishing , he put the original back into its envelope , applied the merest smear of thin gum to the flap and stuck it down . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll make the bread sauce if you like , ’ said Betty selflessly ; so Lydia let her , which was fairly unselfish of Lydia who made the best bread sauce in the world with a great deal of butter , nutmeg and black pepper . |
| 5 | they made the best discovery . |
| 6 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 7 | Rutherford again made the best stand of the innings , for the fourth wicket , with the captain who was n't keen on having him in the team . |
| 8 | Rory made the best attempt she could at a dismissive laugh . |
| 9 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 10 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 11 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 12 | Bass made the largest call this month . |
| 13 | Britain probably made the greatest contribution in literature and science , Germany certainly in music , while in the late nineteenth century , France dominated the world of painting . |
| 14 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 15 | Two-digit inflation was a great boost to buying on credit , and buying a house on credit made the greatest sense of all because inflation ensured that the capital value of your house increased while your repayments took a gradually smaller percentage of your income . |
| 16 | WHETHER it was Major , Kinnock or Ashdown who made the greatest impression on the viewers , we shall know on Friday morning . |
| 17 | Miss Gracie Fields was the visiting star whose War Bond show made the greatest impression on Canadian listeners . |
| 18 | Establishments in public administration ( particularly in education ) made the greatest use of fixed-term contract workers — 39 per cent did so — and the least use of agency workers — eight per cent did so [ see Tables 3.1–2 ] . |
| 19 | But it was guarding the Japanese prisoners in Changi Jail that made the deepest impression on the 20-year-old sergeant from Billingham . |
| 20 | The right hon. Gentleman made the weakest speech in favour of a guillotine motion that I have ever heard from a Leader of the House and that is saying something . |
| 21 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 22 | Darlington RA made the highest score of the day . |
| 23 | If Nick made the mildest joke about virginity , about his luck , about impotence , about needing to eat after their exertions , she would dress and run away and it would all be over . |
| 24 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 25 | In Scotland , sanitary waste made the biggest impact — 38 individual items were found per kilometre , compared with 27 plastic bottles and the same number of cans , and five plastic six-pack holders . |
| 26 | More significantly , the Government yesterday made the biggest effort yet to defuse the row by saying the two Central Office officials ' visit had been cleared by the Tory chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , but Major himself had known nothing about it . |
| 27 | She said I did n't appreciate her , I took her for granted , I did n't notice all the little things she did and that I sulked if she made the slightest mistake . |
| 28 | She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand . |
| 29 | When he lectured he never made the slightest attempt to underline what had been his own ( considerable ) contributions to the subject . |
| 30 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |