Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 2 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 3 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 4 | They 'd even discovered the unlikeliest things in common — a liking for potted shrimps and piano concertos , an aversion to veal and Wagner . |
| 5 | He 'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman — any decent woman . |
| 6 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 7 | No , Jay had not seen the latest . |
| 8 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |
| 9 | She relaxed , then became aware of disappointment from the knowledge that he had not had the slightest intention of kissing her after all . |
| 10 | Dorothea Wilms , minister for intra-German affairs , and Oscar Lafontaine , Social Democrat prime minister of the Saarland ventured to hope that there would soon be changes in East Germany despite the fact that its leader , had not shown the slightest inclination to budge during the 40th anniversary celebrations and talks with the Soviet president . |
| 11 | He had not shown the slightest concern for her . |
| 12 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 13 | Official despair was summed up in a letter from Sir Edward Howarth , Director of the National Camps Corporation ( which ran the schools ) to N. D. Bosworth Smith of the Board of Education , on 13 August 1942 ; Howarth had just read the latest report on the children 's growth rates and commented : |
| 14 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 15 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 16 | D'Alembord , contemplating how much happiness he now stood to lose , shivered with a premonition , then told himself that he had always feared the worst before every battle . |
| 17 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 18 | Never mind , Mark had still won the biggest prize of all . |
| 19 | All we know is that Gunhilda was a woman of great talent and charm , for — in addition to having fascinated two powerful barons — she had also established the closest friendship with Anselm of any woman known to us . |
| 20 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 21 | Anything less than a straight A disappointed me , and even when I had clearly gained the best grade in the class — a slightly alleviating factor-I still told myself that it was n't good enough . |
| 22 | Once she had , after she had listened with a gentle face to Jack 's admission , his ultimatum , that Alison was different , Alison was ‘ for keeps ’ , believed that nothing could be worse , that she had now experienced the worst . |
| 23 | You 'd feel you had n't made the best use of your time here . |
| 24 | Erm , and the reports that I 've had back from the governors was that Concept Catering was so , so absolutely certain that they were the only people who could do it , that when they were faced with competition , they had n't got the faintest idea how to respond to it . |
| 25 | For the first six months , those who were further advanced towards full Marinehood had simply treated the latest Necromundan intake as juveniles , as sprats who might or might not grow into sharks . |
| 26 | Taylor had earlier witnessed the worst piece of defensive football that Des Walker has produced in 48 appearances . |
| 27 | She had never felt the slightest stirring of her senses when he had embraced her , kissed her in French fashion on both cheeks . |
| 28 | Even if they had never contemplated the smallest act of resistance themselves , the notion of FAKINTIL in the hills with their leader had offered the possibility of freedom one day . |
| 29 | Gina had never had the slightest bit of interest in his writing . |