Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 3 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 4 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 5 | The Victorians used nothing but the finest timber in their churches and it 's absolutely first class for recycling . |
| 6 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 7 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 8 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 9 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 10 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 11 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 12 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 13 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 14 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 15 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 16 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 17 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 18 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 19 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 20 | He flung himself on the nearest sofa . |
| 21 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 22 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 23 | Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity . |
| 24 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 25 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 26 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 27 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 28 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 29 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 30 | My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair . |