Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First and last he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice , rectitude and truth . |
| 2 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 3 | He simply replies that he has n't the faintest idea . |
| 4 | He has n't the faintest idea of how things really stand . ’ |
| 5 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 7 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 8 | He paid not the slightest attention . |
| 9 | Johnny Hero played the between set music — again proving that he hosts easily the best disco in town . |
| 10 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 11 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 12 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 13 | When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together . |
| 14 | He took out the biggest picture of all , the one that showed a distraught Harriet Shakespeare supported by another woman . |
| 15 | He brought up the arbalest but , even as he did , the great two-edged sword scythed the air , neatly slicing the merchant 's head from his shoulders . |
| 16 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
| 17 | He gave not the slightest sign of having heard her , continuing to stroke her neck , and now inserting his fingers under the neckline of her nightshift . |
| 18 | He had probably the nicest nature of any dog I ever owned , and possessed the loveliest eyes , brown in colour , and he was my dog definitely . |
| 19 | Mungo nodded , though he had not the faintest idea what she was talking about . |
| 20 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 21 | He had not the slightest intention of going . |
| 22 | Names like Rommel , Auchinleck , El Alamein sounded as common to the ear as Smith , Jones and Robinson ; yet Joe had the feeling that he was being forced to stand on the sidelines and watch a game in which he had not the slightest interest . |
| 23 | But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself . |
| 24 | He did n't really mind which one , the Hallé would do for a start , but he had n't the faintest idea how to go about it and nor had anyone else . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh that one , ’ he said , although he had n't the faintest idea . |
| 26 | He had n't the faintest idea — and being the Colonel , did n't bother to find out . ’ |
| 27 | How dared he surmise her behaviour when he had n't the faintest idea of what her childhood had been like ? |
| 28 | Yes and he had n't the faintest idea of how to do it ! |
| 29 | I told you how he was on the phone that day , I mean , he had n't the foggiest idea of what , what he was doing or where he was going , I do n't know . |
| 30 | He could also count on the co-operation of his brothers , Louis Duke of Anjou and Philip Duke of Burgundy , and in Bertrand du Guesclin he had perhaps the ablest commander on either side in this phase of the war . |