Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It did n't affect me in the slightest at first . |
| 2 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 3 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 4 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 5 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 6 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 7 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 8 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
| 9 | What money you may possess does n't interest me in the slightest ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Your marital problems do n't interest me in the slightest , Dr Vaughan . |
| 11 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 12 | Frankly , none of that interests me in the slightest . |
| 13 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me about the Highest Science . ’ |
| 15 | TELL ME ABOUT THE SKIPFEST . |
| 16 | ‘ Brief me on the latest situation , please , ‘ Q ’ . ’ |
| 17 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps you could drop me at the nearest bus stop or railway station , ’ she added . |
| 19 | That does n't surprise me in the slightest . |
| 20 | The name reminded me of that , but the peculiar detachment of shock prevented the reminder from disturbing me in the slightest . |
| 21 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 22 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 23 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 24 | The risk of liver cancer associated with this did not bother me in the slightest ; |
| 25 | erm it does n't bother me in the slightest because I know that I would prefer maybe to be on my own than to be restricted by someone . |
| 26 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 27 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 28 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 29 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 30 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |