Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] the [adj -est] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 2 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 3 | Mrs Danby says it 's the best thing ! ’ |
| 4 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 5 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 6 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
| 7 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 8 | As far as we believe it is the best thing for the school . ’ |
| 9 | By the time he was demobbed he was the nearest thing to a genius when handling the military gadgetry of radio signals and wireless telephony that the army produced . |
| 10 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 11 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 12 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 13 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong , I think it 's a tragedy that Glen Canyon Dam was built ; but if I was a farmer in Arizona I 'd probably think it was the greatest thing in the world . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I think you 're the best thing in the entire show , ’ and she thought , If only you knew . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you 're the meanest thing on this earth , Carrie Willow . |
| 17 | ‘ We all think it 's the best thing for you , to see something of life beyond the dale . ’ |
| 18 | They have a filing system , and the procedure for it which is about two pages is highly efficient , and the engineers think it 's the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 19 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 20 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |
| 21 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |