Example sentences of "[vb past] his [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kim , 65 , defeated his nearest rival and erstwhile opposition colleague , Kim Dae Jung , 67 , of the Democratic Party , by more than 1,900,000 votes . |
| 2 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 3 | The latter of these was dedicated to the south Wales ironmaster , William Crawshay [ q.v. ] , for whom Lugar designed his largest work , Cyfartha Castle , Glamorgan ( 1825 ) . |
| 4 | You should have brought it , but I erm , a friend of mine — he 's a publisher in San Jose , California , and erm I designed his latest newspaper over the telephone . |
| 5 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 6 | He found his best sport was — he tried to watch sports and tell people about them . |
| 7 | Marvellous wedding he 'd have if they found his best man at midnight somewhere in the Midlands with his head bashed in . |
| 8 | He used his best prose on the earlier stuff about tongues meeting and breasts being cupped . |
| 9 | He tried his nicest smile , and prepared to whisper his suavest come-on line . |
| 10 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 11 | Nicholas , presented with the problem of capitulated Kyrenia , adopted his best bulldog stance and based himself , perforce , in the north in the weeks after his marriage . |
| 12 | Carrick was superbly backed up by paceman Mark Robinson , who thoroughly deserved his best figures for Yorkshire of three for 34 . |
| 13 | It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination ! |
| 14 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 15 | Winstanley , however , had full confidence and proclaimed his greatest wish was to be upon the rock during ‘ … the greatest storm that ever was ’ . |
| 16 | He had more practical ideas ; on Mondays , he invited the schools and booked his best musicians to talk , sing and play . |
| 17 | TEN years after prison bride Anna Moore brutally murdered his youngest daughter , Dick Dixon still believes the Ballykelly bomber should have been hanged . |
| 18 | Diana took her revenge when royal writer Morton prepared his best seller . |
| 19 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 20 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 21 | He played his best shot of the round , a long , low 3-wood , which landed short of the slope at the front of the platform green and ran up level with the flag . |
| 22 | Manager Frank Gray played his strongest side of the season . |
| 23 | Lothar received his earliest education in Rome , probably at the Benedictine abbey of St Andrea al Celio where his teacher was Peter Ismael . |
| 24 | With opinion polls showing a Labour revival , John Major faced his roughest ride since becoming prime minister . |
| 25 | PAINFUL memories were revived for one Middlesbrough player when Lennie Lawrence welcomed his latest recruit this week . |
| 26 | He admired recent Greek Revival buildings in St Petersburg , Berlin , Trieste , London , and Cambridge , but reserved his greatest praise for Paris , where ‘ grecian architecture triumphs ’ and which is consequently ‘ a better school for young architects than either Rome or Venice ’ . |
| 27 | I rubbed some of the fragrant perfume my master used into my neck and cheeks , borrowed his best cambric shirt , cloak and hood , and slunk back to the courtyard . |
| 28 | So Scott has never been far from the sharp end — where all the action is , as they say — and he fired his latest salvo when Rhythm Section landed the Festival Bumper at Cheltenham for his brother-in-law , Belfast solicitor Robert Sinclair . |
| 29 | Lord Hailsham wrote in 1978 ; has anything changed since then to contradict his thesis , or have subsequent events confirmed his worst fears ? |
| 30 | Tomorrow night we hear from some of those witnesses and from the creator of Inspector Morse , who based his latest book on the Eila 's murder . |