Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 2 | about I 'm the best thing in your life But |
| 3 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know which of you is the greatest joker , ’ Madeleine laughed . |
| 5 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |
| 7 | Francis was not totally disconsolate and added : ‘ The way our fans came behind us is the best I 've ever heard it here , and I hope it continues . |
| 8 | Jimmy Magilton 's free kick against Derby … a real flyer … it 's night time its winter back with you here it 's summer and the early morning in the Australian outback … this is the stage for the solar challenge … and behind us is the longest racetrack in the world for cars … cars that run on sun power alone … driving for britain driving for a world first are a team of adventurers from Central South … this is their solar challenge … |
| 9 | His body took it in , took her in , and the desire which reared in him was the strongest he had ever experienced . |
| 10 | It is a big job and a merry one ; and our friends and comrades in it are the best in the world . |
| 11 | Behind , beneath and about him are the oldest and dearest friends of the cause — whilst a liberated slave , now a delegate , is looking up to Clarkson with deep interest , and the hand of friendship is resting with affection on his arm , in fellowship and protection . |
| 12 | Folly clutched the towel closer around her , painfully aware that the bikini he had packed for her was the briefest she owned . |
| 13 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 14 | ‘ Activity' seems to be one car — all I see as I meander my way through the hills above the lonely hamlet of Núpur. beyond it is the biggest fish-drying frame I have so far seen , with overflow fish hung on a wire fence alongside . |
| 15 | In this respect it is among the noblest as it is the vastest moral spectacle in history . |
| 16 | When St Bernard was instructed by the pope to preach the Second Crusade in 1146 he chose Vézelay for the site of his chief gathering — for it was the greatest centre of tourist traffic in his world ; and there again , from the pulpit of the abbey church , St Thomas Becket chose to utter his choicest thunders against the counsellors of King Henry II of England in 1166 — for it was the meeting place of all the peoples of Europe , the ideal centre for a great gesture of propaganda . |
| 17 | Coming straight at us was the biggest wave since Krakatoa . |