Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 2 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 3 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 4 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 5 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 6 | Her target was an excessively tall gangling gentleman , not very suitably clad for the Mediterranean in a suit of gingery wool with the trousers ending in tight bands round the calves . |
| 7 | ‘ A Christmas-shopping outing to East Kilbride was arranged for the elderly of the parish , with transport , tea and coffee laid on ’ . |
| 8 | People never change for the better by being hated , judged and condemned . |
| 9 | Hyman got between the two of them , begging , ‘ Do n't hit him , Charlie . ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile , CAJEC secretary Jack Maurice is wading through the 400 plus pages of the ‘ 88 and rising ’ responses he has received — a record for any ethics document — and wondering how he is going to satisfy all the conflicting demands . |
| 11 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 12 | But policies intended for the poor in general , which are politically more acceptable than those designed for specific racial groups , will aim at a big section of blacks too . |
| 13 | This national dairy breed was formed during the 1960s by the amalgamation of several red or red-and-white types after a gradual series of breed absorptions over the last 40 or 50 years . |
| 14 | The presenter drained off the last of her gin and tonic and clinked the ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 15 | They 're much easier this way round because you have n't got to go through the minor at all to reach them . |
| 16 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 17 | At a meeting of European Community ( EC ) Foreign Ministers in Dublin , Ireland , on Feb. 20 , Genscher sought to reassure those governments which had not been consulted about the two plus four agreement . |
| 18 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 19 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 20 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 21 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 22 | Painting , 1927 , by Joan Miro , the Spanish painter regarded as the greatest of all Surrealist abstract artists . |
| 23 | Saatchi 's extremely active deaccessioning has caused a stir partly because so many major artists and dealers have a personal stake in his collection - and have , in some cases , risen to prominence as his collection has expanded -but also because his collection is almost unanimously regarded as the greatest of its kind in existence . |
| 24 | Malinowski is usually regarded as the greatest of these researchers , at least as far as his methods are concerned . |
| 25 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 26 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 27 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 28 | It 's widely regarded as the best in town and is within strolling distance of the city centre and Maschsee . |
| 29 | This latter region produces a type referred to as rasht silk , which is generally regarded as the best in the world . |
| 30 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |