Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 2 | Then , turning away to look out of the small , square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all : " Specially when she 's second best . " |
| 3 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 4 | He was indefatigable in confirming all who came to him as he moved around the countryside , and in his moments of leisure he wrote the longest of his Meditations on the theme of Cur Deus Homo , and his De Conceptu Virginali as a sequel to this work . |
| 5 | GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 6 | As Endill made his way to a shelf he had the strongest feeling of being followed . |
| 7 | If this is between one and four years he suggested the safest route is a simple building society deposit account . |
| 8 | As soon as she was out of the room he pulled the nearest phone across his desk and punched out the number of the Athene office . |
| 9 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 10 | In October he unveiled the biggest loss in Australian corporate history and he ended the year with debts of A$8billion . |
| 11 | At the end of that season he did the best thing he 'd ever done — he split with 13- times tiddler world champ and team manager Angel Nieto to create his own team with the help of glamorous wife Sylvie . |
| 12 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 13 | In any case he had the deepest contempt , first to last , for the facile conceptualising that often passes for advanced thought , rather like Orwell 's contempt for W. H. Auden 's partisan poem ‘ Spain' ( 1937 ) : |
| 14 | Being appointed Waywarden he levelled the worst ‘ knaps ’ along the High Street , raised a part of Church Hill to a more even gradient and improved the pond below Carrants Court Farm where , as a boy , he drew water near his birth place . |
| 15 | In the end he decided the simplest plan was best . |
| 16 | In that way he achieves the highest degree of attention to detail . |
| 17 | Well , so we do , about Handel and the way he makes the best effect ( at least on us ) ; but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here , one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel . |
| 18 | The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) . |
| 19 | His second victory — on Redgrave Devil in the Barkin Developments Novice Chase — brought up the 100 on the same date he achieved the fastest ton last season . |
| 20 | Tim believes they are breaking new ground as antique dealers producing a fabric range , though in America he says the best decorators are also antique dealers , a trend which he predicts could grow here . |
| 21 | At the same time he had the clearest image in his mind of the three of them : Fred , Daisy , and himself , and it was a spectacle of nothing but pleasure . |