Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj -est] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 2 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 3 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 4 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 5 | we have obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief are necessary for the purpose of our audit . |
| 6 | The creamy-textured shower mousse , which contains , syndets , aloe , ispaghul and ginseng , has a dermatological cleanser to combat dryness as it cleanses , while the deodorant anti-perspirant , in an ozone-friendly spray , blends farnesol , aluminium salts and extracts of sage and liquorice to ensure that you will carry the great feeling from those first precious moments in the bathroom with you throughout the longest of days . |
| 7 | Michelham Country Foods are at the Priory to provide you with the best of A Taste of Sussex . |
| 8 | He 'll fit you with the latest in Japanese-made static infra-red detectors . |
| 9 | This unique Number 4850158 has been selected especially for you in the latest by invitation-only Hospital Plan Cash Match Prize Draw . |
| 10 | She shades her eyes to see better two people clutching each other in evident close camaraderie who to the best of her knowledge had never even met . |
| 11 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 12 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 13 | Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity . |
| 14 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 15 | ‘ We have a deliberate policy to involve people of all ages and this is shown in the new function room which will benefit everyone from the youngest to the oldest members of the community . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It did n't affect me in the slightest at first . |
| 17 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 18 | No doubt she will also enjoy herself with the best of our manhood . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't be ungrateful , ’ said Caroline , who was a bit above herself at the best of times . |
| 20 | We will try , however , to advise them to the best of our abilities with particular emphasis on representation by other galleries . |
| 21 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |
| 22 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 23 | I count the years I had with her as the best of my life . |
| 24 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 25 | ‘ Between the cup and the lip it has pleased the Great Disposer of events to visit him with the greatest of all afflictions in the bereavement of his most affectionate wife . |
| 26 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 27 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 28 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 29 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 30 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |