Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because I think this little dancing troop we had out , I was about the eldest |
| 2 | This was a day of staying put in Stornoway and I was in the best of company as Prince Charles was also in town . |
| 3 | No , but I reckon I was in the best year , sort of , for G C S E's this year and the year that 's just gone , were the best years cos they they do all the . |
| 4 | Now here I was in the greatest race of all time , with four men under ten seconds . |
| 5 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 6 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 7 | Nelson had fallen head over heels in love with Billie , and had unofficially appointed Charity chief consultant of matters of the heart , which was about the biggest joke she had ever heard . |
| 8 | She was n't a pretty woman , but to Erlich 's eye she was about the best there could be . |
| 9 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 10 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 11 | However , Æthelweard , who was of the finest English stock , and may well have been the man of that name executed by Cnut in 1017 ( see above ) , dissembled by undertaking what he had no intention of performing , and the Chronicle records the ætheling 's eventual banishment in 1017 . |
| 12 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 13 | Business and elections were conducted on the first day , followed by speeches and discussion spread over the following two days and an evening conversazione where " everybody was in the best of spirits . |
| 14 | Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever . |
| 15 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 16 | It was with the greatest relief we soon heard of the surrender of the German Generals to Field Marshal Montgomery . |
| 17 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 18 | It was on the biggest floating pontoon that was available and they towed it out into the lagoon in Venice , stuck a couple of pirate flags on the top and it was like a floating city seething with roadies ! |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Miss Rene continued , ‘ immediately we saw this we knew it was of the highest quality . |
| 20 | He had a point or two to make about the present regime but if there was a hint of criticism it was of the gentlest sort . |
| 21 | Or rather , I had an idea , but it was of the vaguest . |
| 22 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 23 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 24 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 25 | ‘ Father O'Neill has gone — it was for the best , ’ he told her . |
| 26 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 27 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 28 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 29 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was for the best . |