Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if you 're still lying in the tub , staring at that cracked sink , why not think about transforming your smallest room ? |
| 2 | Performance on any task therefore , from playing tennis , to taking exams , to going to work , will be impaired if anxiety is too high or too low , but somewhere between these lies the ideal degree of anxiety for producing our best performance . |
| 3 | After proving himself best mathematician at Bath University , Gore had developed behavioural problems . |
| 4 | Dowty Aerospace Propellers are flying high , after clinching their biggest contract . |
| 5 | Already 2-0 down in the three-match series , England will go into today 's clash with just two frontline seamers after axing their fastest bowler , Devon Malcolm . |
| 6 | After suffering their worst defeat in any general election since 1968 , the Socialists yesterday repeated their call , to disillusioned left-wing voters and those who had abstained to turn out in force on Sunday , to block too sweeping a right-wing victory . |
| 7 | A long-standing friendship with an Asian family who were neighbours of mine led to my being involved in the process of Statementing their youngest child , Balbinder Singh . |
| 8 | Fans shouted ‘ cut ’ as the star started describing an earlier film , Witness , as exciting and a must for cinemagoers instead of praising his latest blockbuster . |
| 9 | ’ Imogen Egford ( Mrs Pravda ) has experienced the novel situation of having her eldest daughter take G.C.S.E. maths while the youngest is still not weaned . |
| 10 | You have to balance the psychological importance of having your fastest man on the final anchor leg against the theoretical speed of the baton round the track . |
| 11 | Within a few months of reaching its greatest height , nothing remained of it but a heap of rubble . |
| 12 | ‘ Get out of here , ’ she instructed him huskily , capable only of voicing her greatest need at that moment , no more . |
| 13 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 14 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 15 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 16 | Miles was silent , preoccupied with opening his latest piece of equipment . |
| 17 | Paraguay 's is open wide , with smuggling its biggest earner , so people have much to lose if the incentive to smuggle is reduced by tariff reductions . |
| 18 | Alexei thought about asking what latest scandal Jehan had heard , and how widely it was being spread abroad . |
| 19 | The director Stephen Spielberg has banned his children from seeing his latest blockbuster . |
| 20 | She flashed him a look before bestowing her nicest smile on Jim . |
| 21 | Gina gritted her teeth before bestowing her sweetest smile on his stern face . |
| 22 | The foreign ministers of the Rio group of 11 Latin American countries joined the Bolivian , Chilean , Honduran and Jamaican governments in expressing their deepest concern , as did Argentina and Brazil , but none withdrew recognition of Fujimori in favour of San Roman as the legitimate President . |
| 23 | A slightly different slant is provided by Clarke ( 1978 ) , who maintains that , in developing their earliest relationship to the game , young working-class fans brought with them traditional soccer/shop-floor values , such as partisanship , toughness , masculinity and collectivism . |
| 24 | Siward , the man who , had he , Thorfinn , been standing under that cross and issuing that challenge instead of a priest , would have had no hesitation in ordering his best marksman to smite him dead with his bow or his javelin . |
| 25 | Office Cleaning in Edinburgh were recently called upon to mobilise their best regiment to impress the Ministry of Defence . |
| 26 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 27 | I join with colleagues in all parts of the House in sending my deepest sympathy to the relatives of those who lost their lives in Friday 's slaughter . |
| 28 | The horror stories include León , getting drunk and high on coke before shooting his best friend during a trivial row . |
| 29 | In the final analysis , the third World will never solve its problems without developing its greatest resource : people . |
| 30 | One can not discuss the staffing implications of LMS for teachers without addressing their greatest fear about the issue : compulsory redundancy and therefore the loss of ‘ absolute ’ security of tenure . |