Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 2 | I lived in the most beautiful house in England but I was always lonely and sad . |
| 3 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll go out for a meal , to a quiet exclusive mirador I know with the most spectacular views across to Cabo de Formentor and then we 'll talk , really talk . ’ |
| 5 | I know of the most intellectual of men and women who are not ‘ earthed ’ and some of the humblest who are . |
| 6 | Wide-eyed as any of the cockpit 's meaningless dials , I flew over the most spectacular scenery , feeling nothing more than the pain from my broken wings . |
| 7 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 8 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 9 | Conflicts are resolved by choosing a rule instance which refers to the most recently created quantity . |
| 10 | In the interests of conciseness and convention , it is necessary to use here the suffix notation for vector equations which has for the most part been avoided in this book ( the other main exception being the appendix to Chapter 5 ) . |
| 11 | The regard in which chiefs held their jade ornaments is shown by the way they stored them along with prized bird plumage in the elaborately carved wooden treasure boxes which rank among the most outstanding products of Maori art . |
| 12 | Some will frequent the hostels run by caring organisations which range from the most basic wooden bench with newspapers spread around . |
| 13 | Itself one of the sights of the city , which ranks among the most attractive places on the Continent . |
| 14 | DAVID FRITH at a four-day Test match which ranks among the most captivating ever seen at ‘ Headquarters ’ |
| 15 | This was not a time to cut back the resources of the department which deals with the most acute form of social need , but a time to expand , provide more personnel , more finance , and more expertise . |
| 16 | Conversation A " Is society right ? " has the special characteristic of being a rather abstract discussion ( unlike Conversation E , which deals with the most stereotypically mundane of domestic topics ! ) . |
| 17 | However , in general , one can say that a hearer selects that combination of lexical readings which leads to the most normal possible utterance-in-context . |
| 18 | There is a stillness over the waters , a stillness which stretches to the most distant mountain-top . |
| 19 | The study , which focuses on the most common and most rapidly expanding types of household and housing , aims to examine the following : |
| 20 | Outside these dressing rooms runs a corridor — in other words a haunt of rats — at the end of which there is a water closet which gives off the most terrible stench , enough to upset the stomach of any weak person . |
| 21 | The views of his French contemporary , the Carmelite , Jean de Venette , corresponded almost exactly ; not without reason did the poor people of France have little trust in the nobility who abused them and their property and virtually held them to ransom in the most disgraceful way . |
| 22 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 23 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 24 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 25 | At the end of the road she had to make a right turn when , a few hundred yards later , she came across the most elegant four-storeyed building . |
| 26 | What do you see as the most serious problems that society , or the planet , is facing at present ? |
| 27 | Unshockable , she listened to the most abominable confessions with equanimity , and cooked a memorable boeuf a la mode . |
| 28 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 29 | It will protect , at the expense of the rest , those people in Wales who live in the most expensive properties . |
| 30 | To this end she dressed in the most outrageously modern and expensive clothes , ‘ so that they should be the more staring to men 's sight ’ . |