Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 2 | I do know she was the subtlest of nags . |
| 3 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 4 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 5 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 6 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 7 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 8 | He says it was the worst day . |
| 9 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 10 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 11 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 12 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 13 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 14 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 15 | His handwriting was so bad that Mr Sunderland had pinned his composition to the notice-board in the hall so everyone could see he was the worst writer in the whole school . |
| 16 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 17 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 18 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
| 19 | And they reckon it was the best class of of er Douglas fir they ever had . |
| 20 | I reckon it was the hardest job next to coal-mining . |
| 21 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 22 | I thought I was the greatest . |
| 23 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 24 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 25 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 26 | By the time he was demobbed he was the nearest thing to a genius when handling the military gadgetry of radio signals and wireless telephony that the army produced . |
| 27 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 28 | Carrie thought it was the saddest sound site had ever heard . |
| 29 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 30 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |