Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 2 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) told us in the briefest and skimpiest of ways — that is to be expected from the new model Labour party — of the Labour party 's pledge to return to a policy of fair rates . |
| 5 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 6 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 7 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 8 | " But Comrade Alice , " he reproved her in the gentlest way , " it is important . |
| 9 | It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection . |
| 10 | She sat him in the biggest chair , the one he always hid behind , and looked deep into his eyes . |