Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [adj -est] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 2 | On that particular Christmas Day , theirs was the nearest thing to an idyll to be found in the southern hemisphere . |
| 3 | Her husband later told a news conference : ‘ She was the best thing that any man could wish for . ’ |
| 4 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 5 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 6 | It was the nearest thing they could get to having a castratus ; he was already a political eunuch , him and Teixeira both . |
| 7 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 8 | It was the nearest thing to a coherent defence system yet seen at Verdun . |
| 9 | . It was the finest thing in the world . |
| 10 | It was the scariest thing I did last year — that and hanging around the barrios of Medellin , the drug capital of Colombia , which boasts a murder rate ten times that of Los Angeles . |
| 11 | Matilda was still only 25 and Geoffrey a mere 14 , but it was the wisest thing Henry I did in order to secure his dynastic survival ( after the disastrous loss of his heir when the White Ship sank with loss of all hands , leaving him only a single female heir ) . |
| 12 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 13 | It was the best thing that happened to her . |
| 14 | It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody . |
| 15 | It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero . |
| 16 | Its Australian designer Richard Tyler said : ‘ It was the best thing I 've ever done — a high-necked , very fitted lace mini-dress , encrusted with pearls , with a full overskirt for the ceremony . |
| 17 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |
| 18 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 19 | It was the best thing to do . |
| 20 | It was the best thing ever to be free and by herself again . |
| 21 | They were in total agreement that it was the best thing for both sides that Isabelle should go . |
| 22 | It was the best thing to be quiet and say nothing — to push it all away into a dark place like the cupboard under the stairs so it could be forgotten like an old raincoat or last summer 's shoes . |
| 23 | I said a large mug of strong , sweet tea would do the job and she agreed , adding that it was the best thing ‘ after a shock ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I know it sounds terrible but I 'm awfully glad I had cancer it was the best thing that ever happened to me , ’ she said . |
| 25 | ‘ It was the best thing I could possibly have done . |
| 26 | Oh ey , it was the best thing I had done really . |
| 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 | ‘ I went on a submarine trip when I was 16 , and it was the greatest thing I could imagine then to serve my country in a submarine . |
| 29 | It was the greatest thing . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong , I think it 's a tragedy that Glen Canyon Dam was built ; but if I was a farmer in Arizona I 'd probably think it was the greatest thing in the world . ’ |