Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | She inched towards him , daring him to move before she had shaken off the latest man to accost her . |
| 3 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 4 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 5 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 6 | Those who defended the idea were supporters of the evolutionary hypothesis who saw the linear arrangement as the ladder by which life had ascended to the highest form , humankind . |
| 7 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |
| 8 | The town had suffered from the worst of industrial enterprise and was now the recipient of a major twenty-million-pound clean-up . |
| 9 | She stretched her hands out and warmed them thankfully , remembering those happier times when , as children , she and Mark had argued about the best way to light a fire , had helped their mother after many disheartening attempts with damp wood and wet coal . |
| 10 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 11 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |
| 12 | I turned to find that somebody had capsized in the shallowest part of the river . |
| 13 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 14 | Among the actual owners of the horses , disbelief had set in the quickest . |
| 15 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 16 | The years 1990 and 1991 had emerged as the warmest ever recorded , outstripping the 1980s , which had been the warmest decade to date . |
| 17 | Preliminary results in the elections held concurrently on Nov. 11 for the 100-seat Congress showed that the UCN had emerged as the strongest party with 41 seats , the PDCG second with 29 and the MAS third with 19 seats . |
| 18 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 19 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 20 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 21 | Half an hour previously , Captive Audience had run to the best of his ability in the lads ' race , plugging on one-paced up the Sandown hill to take second place . |
| 22 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 23 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 24 | They had passed through the blackest part of the valley now and it was a relief to see a light or two at Weem , and across the invisible river at Aberfeldy . |
| 25 | His gaze had contracted to the merest topaz thread in a face where sudden bleakness polished his hard cheekbones to a dull , luminescent ivory . |
| 26 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 27 | Calum Macdonald , the Labour MP for the Western Isles — which lost £24 million as a result of the BCCI affair — said the committee had stated in the clearest and strongest terms that the Bank of England was negligent and had failed in its supervisory duties . |
| 28 | A magical , wonderful evening had ended on the highest of notes , Tony thought , as he was swept along towards the doors . |
| 29 | Its yellow distemper had faded to the palest sulphur over the years . |