Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you 're going , my heart fears the worst … |
| 2 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 3 | Well I think my parents did the best they could but the pressures that were on them they , they did n't do a very good job ! |
| 4 | But yesterday she said : ‘ My boss said the best thing would be to get back to work as normal and I feel better for coming in straight away . ’ |
| 5 | My constituency has the highest level in England , Scotland and Wales with an average of 30 per cent . |
| 6 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 7 | My Government attach the highest importance to maintaining our security . |
| 8 | My Government attach the highest priority to improving public services . |
| 9 | Her hand waved in front of her and she said : ‘ My daughter wrote the best art book ever written . |
| 10 | Some of my advisers think the simplest solution would be if Tweed never came back . ’ |
| 11 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 12 | That was the way it had always been , my love daring the slightest signal only to find his love was elsewhere . |
| 13 | I remember during the Tet offensive going round with a transistor radio in my ear to hear the latest news . ’ |
| 14 | Neither of my children showed the merest inclination to follow me into journalism or television . |
| 15 | When we arrived at the market town , my master hired the largest room in the public house , and placed me upon the table there . |
| 16 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 17 | Her charms increased every day , not only in my eye but in the eyes of all who beheld her , for my mother took the greatest delight in her waiting maid . |
| 18 | His craggy features dissolved into a breathtakingly attractive smile , and Robbie felt her insides give the oddest little flip . |
| 19 | Dr P 's argument disguises the reality that , as has been pointed out by writers as diverse as Spender ( 1981a ) and Eagleton ( 1983 ) , only a small group of people , historically , have participated in deciding which literature gets the best ‘ results ’ . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , the burden of proof will be on reformists to show that their policies offer the best chance of avoiding internal instability . |
| 21 | Here was someone who would help her push the car into the side of the road , who would know in which direction lay the nearest house , who would be a companion on her walk . |
| 22 | In the equatorial rain forests of the north , the Amazon and its tributaries form the largest river system in the world — an area of 750 million acres . |
| 23 | Their ambition to become the greatest busker of them all . |
| 24 | For those who like their recordings to use the latest technology , ‘ Masterworks Digital Masters DDD ’ brings us up to date with , in welcome re-issues of his best Cleveland recordings . |
| 25 | The furore on the Conservative side raged all year ; it has been continually claimed ever since that RPM cost Home the October 1964 election , in which Labour won the slimmest majority of four seats . |
| 26 | Scottish Hydro-Electric controls the water level in its dams using the latest information and forecasts available . |
| 27 | Old newspapers are being preserved by photographing about 200 volumes a year to microform , priority being given to those for which readers make the greatest call . |
| 28 | But if anybody refuses to believe that about 270 B.C. Lycophron could say about the Romans : " And the fame of the race of my ancestors shall thereafter be exalted to the highest by their descendants who shall with their spears win the foremost crown of glory , obtaining the sceptre and monarchy of earth and sea " ( transl . |
| 29 | They turned into a quieter street where open shutters gave a view of craftsmen bent over worktables placed at the front of their shops to catch the best of the morning light . |
| 30 | Christ 's Hospital had been founded in 1553 for the ‘ orphaned , aged and sick poor ’ , but by the time of Coleridge 's arrival it had long outgrown its origins to become the foremost of England 's charity schools . |