Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | Then he lay in a Dublin hospital bed with his neck in a brace , his rugby future hanging by the merest thread . |
| 3 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 4 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 5 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 6 | Distress is an anachronistic remedy surviving from the earliest days in the history of the lease . |
| 7 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 8 | The two provincial elections took place against a background of public opinion polls showing PCP federal Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 's standing with the electorate dropping to the lowest for any prime minister in the history of Canadian opinion polling . |
| 9 | He heard the tell-tale sound of a horse whinnying in the largest barn , and ran to unfasten the door . |
| 10 | From their figure , however , it can be extrapolated that the labelling index tended to level off , at a gastrin concentration corresponding to the lowest concentration giving maximal effect in the present study . |
| 11 | Everyone is different , and although obviously some birth complications can be foreseen , such as if the baby is in an unusual position , or if the mother is particularly small and slim , in general , every expectant mother goes into labour hoping for the best , hoping that she 'll be the one to have a quick and easy time . |
| 12 | The nights spent scraping away the silver backing among the best in my whole life , he wrote . |
| 13 | Isabelle nudges him and his head falls forward over the coffee table , tips of his hair brushing against the largest lump of heroin . |
| 14 | This is no longer true and tea-bags are now available containing teas from selected estates according to the best crop available at the time of packing . |
| 15 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 16 | Tracey said she recruited many of her adult models by trooping the disco and nightclub circuit looking for the latest talent . |
| 17 | If primogeniture involves the wealth passing to the eldest child , then the process of concentration is intensified , since some heiresses marry heirs . |
| 18 | His vow of homage was not merely a promise to be true to the emperor and to serve him against his enemies , but a promise to live in obedience to God and His law according to the best of each man 's strength and understanding . |
| 19 | In both senses of the word then , today 's walk should be the high point of the circuit passing through the wildest landscape in the Lake District . |
| 20 | Because the dower is always settled on the bride and her family either in kind or in cash or both , it has inevitably led to the stigma of ‘ selling and buying ’ , to stories of a girl going to the highest bidder . |
| 21 | His hard thighs brushed hers as he shifted suddenly , picking up the telephone nestling in the armrest . |
| 22 | I could imagine my aunt as a young girl asking for the latest of the books for birthday or Christmas until she had them all . |
| 23 | But in fact the Mort Homme , with its sinister name acquired from some long-forgotten tragedy of another age , was to be the centre of the most bitter , see-saw fighting for the best part of the next three months . |
| 24 | These can be interpreted in a similar way to the maps of the Z2 Carbonate , with a belt of porous oolitic grainstones coinciding with the thickest part of the formation . |
| 25 | Alan Bates stars as a middle-aged illustrator going through the worst mid-life crisis I have ever witnessed . |
| 26 | The magistrates investigating the corruption involving all the major parties and business must feel rather like the apprentice : the arrest of the president of a Milan old people 's home a year ago , charged with accepting bribes , opened the flood-gates and precipitated the most far-reaching corruption investigations leading to the highest levels of politics and business . |
| 27 | We go offshore power-boat racing with the best in Britain . |
| 28 | Price-rigging is chiefly what leads to four-fifths of EC farm support going to the richest one-fifth of its farmers . |
| 29 | 3 Having estimated the security betas , they then proceeded to construct 10 portfolios in various risk classes ranging from the highest with a value of 1.56 to the lowest with 0.5 . |
| 30 | Kirov forced himself to examine the faked photograph in detail , his keen eye searching for the slightest flaw . |