Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
2 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
3 | In this day room we again met the most interesting folk . |
4 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
5 | In Chapter 5 we met the more sophisticated idea of the evolutionarily stable set of genes . |
6 | It was on the tip of Breeze 's tongue to ask what was the matter , but she knew that Susan would condemn that as being too impulsive ; so she endured the very uncomfortable atmosphere for the rest of the drive . |
7 | One shop in the Isle of Man , which never did any stocktaking , unearthed the most wonderful collection of 1920s toys . |
8 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
9 | ‘ We have , I believe , passed the most difficult point , ’ Mr Waigel said . |
10 | Inset below Pulled and pushed tourists made the rather undignified scramble up the pyramids in the nineteenth century . |
11 | Adam Smith made the most explicit statements in support of the idea that education improves the quality of labour and hence raises economic growth . |
12 | The hon. Member for Salisbury got to his feet and made the most amazing pronouncement in the two-day debate . |
13 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
14 | In the event , Ramsay himself made the most useful contributions to the debate , with the young Steward and Moray backing him , the Regent out of his depth and almost pathetically grateful for any guidance he could get . |
15 | Yet another senior parliamentary colleague , Ivan Lawrence , Member for Burton , a barrister and chairman of the party 's Home Affairs Committee , on 21 May 1992 made the most effective critique of the concept of subsidiarity that I have witnessed . |
16 | A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations . |
17 | He beat the air with his hands and made the most heart-rending cries . |
18 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
19 | ‘ Not long ago , a cuckoo made the most almighty noise ever heard in Borrowdale . |
20 | In the event , it was the Prime Minister who made the most personal attacks on her challenger in a series of last minute newspaper interviews . |
21 | It was the picture of public squalor which accompanied private affluence that made the most immediate impact on the thinking of the time . |
22 | It is noteworthy that the two figures who made the most substantial contribution during this period to the formulation of a Marxist-based model which was more directly relevant to Latin American reality both came from Peru , where the above features were particularly accentuated and where , therefore , the Comintern prescription seemed least appropriate . |
23 | Right from that very first day in France you made the most tremendous impression on me , Alison . |
24 | And then , in Camus , who made the most immense journey from his origins ( his mother was illiterate ; a neighbour read her the telex saying he 'd won the Nobel Prize ) , I found someone who stated , in the most affirmative and human terms , the ways in which he remained dependent on them . |
25 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |
26 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
27 | He nevertheless adapted well to this new-fangled contraption and made the most excellent coffee on it , of which we drank many cups with him and his family during their visit . |
28 | Our costume designer was a cleaner at the town hall ; a wonderful woman called Fran who made the most wonderful costumes . |
29 | The enamoured Mr Thompson made the most elaborate water gardens to complement the house , with an aqueduct , canals , fountains and cascades . |
30 | There was no similarity of course ; Rostov 's service in a dozen frontier system wars posed no threat to the succession — rather the reverse in fact — but for a moment he found himself wondering if the convoluted nature of the Court infrastructure made the most devious method inevitable . |