Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 2 | ‘ If I was the best second row forward in England I 'd hope to get into the side , but that 's not the case at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 3 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 4 | I was the best man at his wedding . |
| 5 | Since I was the best spinner of my type in the world , eventually it would all come right . |
| 6 | ‘ We first chatted on a roller skating rink , where he was chosen as the best boy skater , and I was the best girl . |
| 7 | ‘ I was the best field agent we ever had . |
| 8 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 9 | But the managers I played for said I was the best professional . |
| 10 | ‘ Today I was the best swot in the whole school , mum ! ’ answered Jane . |
| 11 | I remember them well ; they were blue leather and had four spikes and I was the proudest youngster alive in possessing them . |
| 12 | Her father John said : ‘ Carol looked beautiful at the wedding and I was the proudest dad in the world . |
| 13 | I was the eldest daughter and they really wanted to keep me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 15 | I am very proud that I was the highest scorer for Darlington for many years . |
| 16 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 17 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 18 | I was a bodyguard for a little while — not a very successful one , really , I was the weediest bodyguard that you 've ever seen , but I was hired to look after the Sheikh of Quatar — she 's a female . |
| 19 | ‘ I was the quickest way of checking it . |
| 20 | I was the youngest prisoner ever to go to Cookham Wood : now they do n't take anyone under twenty-one . |
| 21 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 22 | And in fact er one My brother next to n to me I was the middle of them I was the youngest boy . |
| 23 | The organiser had hysterics , telling me I could n't cancel as I was the biggest name on the bill . |
| 24 | Apart from him , I was pretty sure I was the oldest person there . |
| 25 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 26 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 27 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 28 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 29 | They chose the state railways because theirs was the lowest bid . |
| 30 | On that particular Christmas Day , theirs was the nearest thing to an idyll to be found in the southern hemisphere . |