Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 32 | Although no one yesterday was able to confirm this as a record defeat , club officials admitted it was the biggest thrashing in their memories . |
| 33 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 34 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 35 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 36 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 37 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 38 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 39 | The storm broke as I drove past Woomera on the way back to Port Augusta and locals there said it was the heaviest rain for nearly 200 years . |
| 40 | Duncan said it was the best that he had ever seen . |
| 41 | Both Bryan Robson and Alex Ferguson said it was the best they had ever seen a Wimbledon side play — it makes a change to get credit when it 's due . ’ |
| 42 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 43 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 44 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 45 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |
| 46 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 47 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 48 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |
| 49 | People said it was the finest playhouse in England . |
| 50 | Someone said it was the worst paper they had ever seen . |
| 51 | Lowther , with numerous climbing trips to Greenland behind him , said it was the hardest route he had done there . |
| 52 | Some said it was the happiest day of their long lives . |
| 53 | Ray Bellringer , a national park spokesman , said it was the biggest event of its kind in the recorded history of the mountain . |
| 54 | Sir Richard Sutton said it was the biggest meet the Cottesmore had seen that year . |
| 55 | Organiser John Morgans said it was the biggest and best ever and confirmed the festival will go ahead next year , though where is not certain as Darlington prepare to move from McMullen Road to start what they hope is a new era of success . |
| 56 | In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in the Times today , the ten board members said he was the best person to lead the corporation . |
| 57 | Madonna said he was the sexiest man in the world . |
| 58 | He was selected because those responsible for choosing the successor to a hugely popular MP considered he was the best candidate . |
| 59 | When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position . |