Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it . |
| 2 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 3 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |
| 4 | Apparently he was quite charming , but as the basis of his charm seemed to rest upon the un-startling stratagem of addressing every female he encountered by the fullest possible version of her name ( so that every Julie became a Juliana , every Dot extended to a Dorothea , all Marys became Mariana , Sues Susanna , etc . |
| 5 | While Enzo Ferrari always had the ability to attract the best drivers in the world , including the one he regarded as the best of all — the legendary Italian Tazio Nuvolari — the one man he never managed to get was Britain 's Stirling Moss . |
| 6 | He moved into the farthest room , which had a tiny square of window set in its far wall and overlooking the rear driveway . |
| 7 | Macmillan also left income-tax rates alone , hit cigarette-smoking and made stern noises about public expenditure ; and he presided over the highest interest rates for decades — bank rate was a horrific 5.5% . |
| 8 | He criticised the attitude of Scottish Office ministers to what he described as the gravest crisis in employment Scotland has faced since the war . |
| 9 | Now he came to the youngest brother , who was living in a tiny hut in the forest with his young wife Militsa . |
| 10 | And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He came off the worst but I do n't know what happened to the fairy on top . |
| 12 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 13 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 14 | Silly-Willie met her in the hall , he came from the farthest door ; his step was as fast and light as his dancing . |
| 15 | He dropped into the nearest one and let the zimmer fall to the ground . |
| 16 | He gestured to the nearest table . |
| 17 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 18 | He drove through the poorest streets of Paris , and some of the richest ones , and at length , shortly before midnight stopped the car in a wide and gracious street of tall and beautiful houses . |
| 19 | With a wicked wink he ducked into the nearest cubicle , safely out of reach . |
| 20 | He retreated to the deepest part and stood up to the chest in filth , weeping . |
| 21 | ‘ Because that 's the way it is with us , ’ he returned with the faintest of smiles . |
| 22 | In fact , he finished with the best weight , a 1lb 15oz haul of Dace . |
| 23 | He fielded in the shortest of positions , sometimes almost touching the batsman , and without helmet , visor or shin guards . |
| 24 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 25 | For a time he puzzled over the best title . |
| 26 | He scuttled behind the nearest tank and watched Fakrid and Jinkwa 's predictable reaction to the latest development with amusement . |
| 27 | He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead . |
| 28 | He decided on the easiest of all the alternatives . |
| 29 | He dashed into the nearest shop doorway at the cab took off from the kerb again and accelerated away down the street . |
| 30 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |