Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped at the biggest hotel in the town , and went in to their rooms . |
| 2 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 3 | Accordingly , it is best if the hive-up is deferred until , say , the end of the month in which the acquisition occurred at the earliest ( using a month-end will make the accounting treatment easier ) . |
| 4 | Her letter came at the wrongest time . |
| 5 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 6 | With only 11 declared at the latest acceptance stage , the Doncaster Classic looked somewhat below par . |
| 7 | With only 11 declared at the latest acceptance stage , the Doncaster Classic looked somewhat below par . |
| 8 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |
| 9 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 10 | With a rush of glee , he lifted a fallen machete and swung at the nearest Secte Rouge , biting deep into his side . |
| 11 | I looked at the nearest guard through half-closed eyes . |
| 12 | I sat in my flat and looked at the latest one . |
| 13 | With them she talked , looked at the latest exhibitions , ate in tiny restaurants in the Quartier Latin that smelled deliciously of garlic and wine and smarter ones in the Champs-Elysees , wandered about the city marvelling at how little physical damage the Nazis had done , and had a marvellous time . |
| 14 | This certainty was that the Spice Islands , the Moluccas , lay at the farthest side of the Mar del Sur , or of whatever might lie beyond the waters that Balboa saw . |
| 15 | The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top ! |
| 16 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 17 | A serious petrol shortage is only making things worse — bus travel , crowded at the best of times , is now cruel and inhumane . |
| 18 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 19 | One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet . |