Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two years later , in 1972 , he became the youngest world champion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) . |
| 11 | He became the youngest beneficiary in the coupon election of 1918 , fighting on a programme of ‘ socialistic imperialism ’ in his Harrow constituency . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He used the latest futures and share prices to compute the size of any deviations from the no-arbitrage condition every second . |
| 17 | He used the latest camera technology , and experimented with all the techniques that were available . |
| 18 | He suffered the severest form of tetraplegia short of being condemned to life on a ventilator. — PA |
| 19 | He recognised the truest limits of the medium in which he worked , never allowed technical virtuosity to have the better of the central aim of significant composition , and established a balanced style which remains the most perfect model of the line-engraver 's art . |
| 20 | He identified the largest category of omitted types to be ( predictably ) proper names , but noted also a bias against technical vocabulary and derived forms with negative meanings . |
| 21 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 22 | He assumed the highest office at fifty-five . |
| 23 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 24 | He arrived the freshest star in the Nonconformist firmament ; he left heir presumptive to Hugh Price Hughes and John Clifford [ qq.v . ] . |
| 25 | Almost immediately he confronted the biggest crisis of his political life . |
| 26 | Now he faced the biggest obstacle he would ever have to clear , for the only chance of cure lay in a long and horrifically painful course of chemotherapy . |
| 27 | In October he unveiled the biggest loss in Australian corporate history and he ended the year with debts of A$8billion . |
| 28 | His theology was , however , deeply unorthodox and , as we saw in Chapter I , he paid the highest price for wishing to supplant contemporary Roman Catholicism with an alternative religion , which he believed was of older pedigree . |
| 29 | In all , he spent the best part of four hours in the water , before meeting up at Gloucester Cathedral with the Bishop of Tewkesbury ( above ) , who had walked the 10 miles along the river bank ( a much more sensible idea ) , the culmination of a week-long pilgrimage around his diocese . |
| 30 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |