Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 5 | He took out the biggest picture of all , the one that showed a distraught Harriet Shakespeare supported by another woman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |