Example sentences of "[pron] be the [adj -est] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the best thing in your life |
| 2 | ( I 'm the best thing in your life ) |
| 3 | about I 'm the best thing in your life But |
| 4 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |
| 5 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 6 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 7 | Even Xerox 's Ventura , which is the closest thing yet to TechDoc in a desktop publishing package , is only just beginning to tackle the problem of networking . |
| 8 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
| 9 | One senses disappointment from Morgan : ‘ Watching them on video , you can not fail to be impressed by their repeated ability to get men behind the ball , which is the biggest thing in sevens . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did . |
| 11 | Living standards for most of the population were lower in India than in western Europe and silver bullion , which was the nearest thing to a common international currency at the time , had a higher purchasing power in India than in Europe , so that anything made by people who were paid European wages would be expensive in terms of silver in India . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I signed for Palace on Friday the 13th ( of September ) last year — which was the worst thing I could have done . |
| 13 | On that particular Christmas Day , theirs was the nearest thing to an idyll to be found in the southern hemisphere . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 15 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you 're the meanest thing on this earth , Carrie Willow . |
| 17 | Her husband later told a news conference : ‘ She was the best thing that any man could wish for . ’ |
| 18 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 19 | ‘ Grimma , we 're the highest thing there is ! |
| 20 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 21 | ‘ People are afraid of oils because they are used by great masters ’ , she says , ‘ but they are the easiest thing to start with . |
| 22 | They 're the nastiest things . |
| 23 | Like all old miners , he remembered the coming of the pit baths , they were the best thing that ever happened , he said . |
| 24 | I believe it was your mother who said , Would n't it be the best thing ? ’ |
| 25 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |
| 26 | When my two children are very naughty I also smack them , and I use a slipper because it 's the softest thing that comes to hand . |
| 27 | And she makes me laugh all the time — laughter is tremendously bonding , it 's the greatest thing . |
| 28 | It 's the funniest thing ! |
| 29 | It 's the funniest thing you ever heard of . |
| 30 | It 's the funniest thing I can remember about Scarborough . |