Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For a time he puzzled over the best title . |
| 32 | He scuttled behind the nearest tank and watched Fakrid and Jinkwa 's predictable reaction to the latest development with amusement . |
| 33 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 34 | He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead . |
| 35 | He decided on the easiest of all the alternatives . |
| 36 | He dashed into the nearest shop doorway at the cab took off from the kerb again and accelerated away down the street . |
| 37 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 38 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 39 | In the seminars he went through the latest developments in Pest Control in the UK . |
| 40 | He looked like the worst kind of tramp . |
| 41 | He stared into the blackest night . |
| 42 | But the two he remembered in the clearest detail , well into adulthood , were a crazy , terrifying patchwork of the history he learned at school , or at his grandad 's knee , who was a great , if not unbiased , teacher , and of his own personal history . |
| 43 | Immediately a swarm of coolies rushed towards him , dragging their wire-wheeled rickshaws behind them , and he leaped into the nearest one with a loud whoop . |
| 44 | Despite the wheelchair and his legs covered by a tartan rug , there was no look of the invalid about brave Leslie as he relaxed with the latest Lord 's Taverners magazine Long Room . |
| 45 | He dropped what luggage he had into the nearest garbage receptacle and then , ignoring the ticket windows completely , headed over toward the phones . |
| 46 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said without the faintest trace of compunction . |
| 48 | ‘ We all contribute , ’ he said without the slightest hint of a bruised ego . |
| 49 | ‘ Morning , ’ he said to the nearest policeman , whose head was buried in the engine . |
| 50 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
| 51 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |
| 52 | ‘ Such a magazine could become an instrument of God 's peace , God 's justice and God 's salvation , ’ he wrote in the latest issue . |
| 53 | As he hurried towards the nearest freight car , he heard the dreaded sound of a dog barking furiously behind him . |
| 54 | And he pointed to the nearest cow . |
| 55 | He picked on the weakest and deserves the strongest punishment . |
| 56 | Candace Rainford was clinging to his arm and he did not look as if he minded in the slightest . |
| 57 | One of them said he was ‘ so fussy that he moaned about the smallest things — like the position of Miss Cuka 's arms in a scene ’ . |
| 58 | He explained without the slightest embarrassment , and while he did so he looped lengths of the rope clothes ' line by his feet . |