Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his indisposition was short-lived for in the foursomes later he helped return the lowest gross of 96 , being runners-up to the Club 's Captain and Miss E. Simmons . |
| 2 | It merely means that he has selected the best presentation of the subject for your assistance . |
| 3 | Not content with missing a penalty in the WC Semi final last time , he has to give the fastest EVER international goal in one of Englands most crucial ( potentially ) games . |
| 4 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 5 | He has faced the toughest election of any Tory chairman for 20 years , while spending the afternoons dashing to Bath to defend his own marginal seat against a strong Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 6 | Modern medical technology suggests that Mr Souness 's operation should not be life threatening but his predicament indicates he has become the latest to succumb to the strain of football management . |
| 7 | He has shown the best form of his career and won over boo-boys on the Ayresome Park terraces . |
| 8 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 9 | He stopped to inspect the latest Piaget watches and was tempted to buy one for Susan . |
| 10 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 11 | And I always remember he said said to me , he 'd placed the biggest orders for pencils , of course in them , there were no ball pens , er he he received that from the London County Council by accident . |
| 12 | He 'd said the best place for the people of Dynmouth was in their coffins . |
| 13 | What measurements should he choose to enclose the largest area and what will be this area ? |
| 14 | He has told friends that he intends to recreate the best bits of Neddy . |
| 15 | He began to consider the worst possible scenario . |
| 16 | Miss Huntley asked anxiously , and he decided to make the best of a bad job . |
| 17 | Scheer had three possible routes through German minefields to his harbours and safety ; he elected to take the shortest , via the Horn Reefs , since most of his ships were slower than those of the British . |
| 18 | Was there someone like him ? ‘ … and of course he had to take the greatest possible care . |
| 19 | He had lost the greatest friend he would ever have . |
| 20 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 21 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 22 | Within a few months , Charles firmly believed he had made the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 23 | Other noteworthy plantings were mentioned by Miller : the Duke of Norfolk had , at Worksop , the greatest number of Magnolia glauca then growing in England ; while in Sir John Collinson 's garden at Exeter , he had seen the largest Magnolia grandiflora in the country . |
| 24 | He had seen the best and the worst . |
| 25 | He had played the worst of tricks on her , making her lose all her self-respect , and it was something that would rankle in her heart for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | Civil servants might , though in the end it was the politicians who decided , which was why he had declined the highest office with both Nato and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 27 | Yesterday , PC John Jobson , 33 , told how he had become the latest statistic in the soaring number of knife-related offences . |
| 28 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 29 | For the hearing a posse of lawyers appeared for both sides , but Thomas , at the time of his deepest depression over the outcome of the suit , comforted himself that he had secured the best lawyers that money could buy before his opponents had managed to secure them . |
| 30 | He had studied the latest Russian , German and French film theories , spent six months mixing with movie people in Hollywood , then gone on to train at British Instructional Pictures , a maker of successful non-fiction films which moved into drama production in the late 1920s . |