Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 3 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 4 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 5 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 6 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 7 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 8 | ELTON John and his partner Bernie Taupin joined the ranks of the greats today after an American company paid them the biggest advance in music history . |
| 9 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 10 | In 1986 Forbes magazine named him the richest man in America . |
| 11 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 12 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 13 | However , although Leese 's virulent anti-semitism and racial fascist beliefs made him the nearest equivalent in outlook to an English Hitler , his personality and attitude to leadership were very different . |
| 14 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 15 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 16 | Abraham bought me new clothes , gave me a new place to live , and sent me the finest food . |
| 17 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 18 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 19 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 20 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 21 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 22 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 23 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 24 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 25 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 26 | Seeing that ruling railroaded through made it the saddest day of my life . |
| 27 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 28 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 29 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 30 | ‘ Royal Gait gave me the best day of my racing career at Cheltenham last March , ’ he added . |