Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 2 | The ANC described the membership of the five MPs ( who were subsequently expelled from the DP ) as formalizing a " long-standing relationship which has earned them the greatest respect " and as underlining the ANC 's commitment to " a truly non-racial South Africa " . |
| 3 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 4 | All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere . |
| 5 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 6 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 7 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 8 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 9 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
| 10 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 11 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 12 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 13 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 14 | I say I would have found you the cheapest ones , and they were good quality ones as well , you know you go to some of these garden centres and |
| 15 | Whichever way it will have cost you the best part of £100 for the first survey , and this is not refundable . |
| 16 | She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area . |
| 17 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 18 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 19 | I 've given you the best six months of |
| 20 | Willi had given them the briefest of explanations for their presence being required but they were becoming as alarmed as Gesner by this talk of lawsuits and the resignation of Franz Busacher . |
| 21 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 22 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 23 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 24 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 25 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 26 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 27 | The technology has certainly come of age and whereas battery powered tools can never compete in power with mains operated ones , their increasing sales have made them the fastest developing aspect of woodworking technology today . |
| 28 | ( So the crew would protest ) ‘ that he 's bought us the best — |