Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 2 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 3 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 4 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 5 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ I brought you the best of what was left , ’ Simon went on . |
| 7 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 8 | I gave her the best books |
| 9 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 10 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 12 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 13 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 14 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 15 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 16 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 17 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 18 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 19 | You gave him the best he could want . ’ |
| 20 | She liked it the best of all her books . |
| 21 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 22 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 23 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 24 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 25 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 26 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 27 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 28 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 29 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 30 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |