Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 2 | They sold to the highest bidder , an antiquarian book-seller from Fife . |
| 3 | What do they think of the latest wave of censorship , particularly the Judas Priest case and the hunt for ‘ backward masked ’ massages ? |
| 4 | What do they think of the latest wave of censorship , particularly the Judas Priest case and the hunt for ‘ backward masked ’ massages ? |
| 5 | They stopped at the biggest hotel in the town , and went in to their rooms . |
| 6 | Comprising over 500 photographs , they range from the earliest daguerrotypes to contemporary compositions by such photographers as Lartigue , Erwitt , Doisneau , Horst and Wegman . |
| 7 | They react to the latest discoveries with blasé aplomb , remaining unruffled by theological controversy . |
| 8 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 9 | Despite using expensive state-of-the-art machinery , the pitch staff have been defeated by what they describe as the wettest season in living memory . |
| 10 | Indeed , even honesty is a mere legal concept now , rather than a moral one , as they undertake to hide important information from us in order to borrow as cheaply as possible , while they lend at the highest practicable rate . |
| 11 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 12 | They preside over the fastest increasing crime rate in our history . |
| 13 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |
| 14 | They talked about the latest sensation — some wretched murder — and about a woman , a maidservant , who was to be tried for the murder in Geneva the next day ! |
| 15 | Suddenly in the spotlight , Arab-Americans are torn between the urge to stress their loyalty and the alarm they feel about the latest turn in Middle East events . |
| 16 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 17 | In the third part of the series in which our road testers name the cars they rate as the best , the ultimate in luxury saloons comes to the fore . |
| 18 | When they wake they dress in the loosest clothes , |
| 19 | E. People have some choice of where to shop , but normally they go to the nearest place which has the type of goods they want . |
| 20 | They go by the slowest clock . |
| 21 | Strategic planning involves top management and the main company functions in the earlier stages , and departmental management in the later , as they progress from the broadest market and company considerations to the details of specific product launches . |
| 22 | They went to the nearest cinema : it was an American film , dubbed , from one of Hemingway 's short stories . |
| 23 | They after all , they went to the tiniest details . |
| 24 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 25 | Well they , they had gone into the production of er steel er turning er in such a way that er they looked for the best possible tools er in order , one , that they could produce the item more cheaply as far as the employing class is concerned , they want to produce it as cheap as they can and probably sell it the dearest . |
| 26 | But locals are incensed at the suggestion they live in the poorest served community in England . |
| 27 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 28 | Fitness fanatics have been warned that they could seriously injure themselves if they join in the latest health craze without proper preparation . |
| 29 | This holds that through their actions in the market consumers oblige companies to produce the goods they require in the largest quantities at the lowest possible price . |
| 30 | They come from the roughest jails where they expect trouble all the time . |