Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bubbling with enthusiasm , Fr Cunningham , 80 , said it was the opportunity to work with children which prompted him to accept the latest offer of as a ‘ first step to retirement ’ . |
| 2 | It is not unknown for a salesman to describe the product in glowing terms and you would expect him to highlight the best features . |
| 3 | The news that something was amiss quickly spread to the rest of the group , who gathered round him to hear the latest developments . |
| 4 | The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can . |
| 5 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 6 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 7 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 8 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 9 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 10 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 11 | Two years later , in 1972 , he became the youngest world champion . |
| 12 | The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours . |
| 13 | Then a Chantry High School pupil aged 16 years and 56 days , he became the youngest player ever to play in a league match for the club . |
| 14 | GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 15 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 16 | The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) . |
| 17 | He became the youngest beneficiary in the coupon election of 1918 , fighting on a programme of ‘ socialistic imperialism ’ in his Harrow constituency . |
| 18 | Until she said in front of the Rembrandt , ‘ Do n't you think he got the teeniest bit bored halfway through — I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel . |
| 19 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |
| 20 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 21 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 22 | Lester Piggott provided the York magic yesterday and he looks the biggest danger here on another unlucky Goodwood horse , Mudaffar . |
| 23 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 24 | Sir Philip , himself , is likewise full of praise for your son , for whom he has the highest regard . |
| 25 | Moran says he has the best collection of medieval furniture in private hands in the country , and he wants the hall to set it off . |
| 26 | He has the best training and development programmed Furthermore , he goes out of his way to ensure that his people get the best rewards for their labour . |
| 27 | He has the best supervisor in his team and the best people throughout . |
| 28 | ARSENAL boss George Graham reckons he has the best job in football — but he knows even he could suffer a Brian Clough-like backlash if the Gunners fail to win a trophy for the second year running . |
| 29 | Even if the Tories lose their overall majority , Mr Major is almost certain to seek to form a minority Government if he has the largest number of seats . |
| 30 | The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience . |