Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 2 | He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s . |
| 3 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 4 | they made the best discovery . |
| 5 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 6 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |
| 7 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 8 | They sold the best diamonds en route . |
| 9 | Of course this was all photographed at the time , and they found the oldest plough in Europe . |
| 10 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 11 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
| 12 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
| 13 | Last Winter they suffered the worst floods for fifty years , with some homes being hit three times . |
| 14 | They raised the largest amount — £125,632 . |
| 15 | They scooped the Best Drama Serial award at the Writers ' Guild presentations in London . |
| 16 | When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room . |
| 17 | Luckily , Jean and Tina were compatible and amenable and between them , they softened the worst effects of Florence Keith 's interference . |
| 18 | They carved the longest bulletins on television into the news show we HAD to watch , launching a new genre of reporting after the stuffed-shirt formality of the BBC . |
| 19 | So they decided the best way out was to remortgage their home . |
| 20 | Swindon police say they 're pleased with the way they handled the biggest test yet of their football security operation . |
| 21 | They took the nearest passage in the same direction , snapping off the torches and moving by touch alone , eyes straining in the swirling gas , tensed for the figures that could be the fleeing enemy — or Lawton and Silk falling back . |
| 22 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 23 | These treaties were often impressively strict and cunning : in some cases , for example , shepherds bound by them were obliged to walk ahead of their flocks in the mornings , so that they were unable to drive the animals to where they knew the best grass to be . |
| 24 | ‘ They chose the busiest time of the year when the Christmas rush is on and that makes it even more appalling . |
| 25 | When they reached the nearest stairs the water was over Maggie 's ankles and still rising . |
| 26 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 27 | They said the best way to give them |
| 28 | He says : ‘ SCL asked to look at the deal I was putting together and straight away they said the biggest problem is conflict of interests . |
| 29 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 30 | Sports commentators had what many came to consider the most enviable job in the world ; they had the best seats for the best events in return for talking about what they loved anyway . |