Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 2 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 3 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 4 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 5 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 6 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 7 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 8 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 9 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 10 | But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past . |
| 11 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 12 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 13 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 14 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 15 | He also said you 're the best in the business . ’ |
| 16 | Everybody said you were the best . |
| 17 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 18 | Bernstein recently said it 's the best Salome he 's ever seen . |
| 19 | off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there . |
| 20 | Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here |
| 21 | yeah , he said it 's the best move I ev he said I do n't , the lads do n't give me any trouble he says I 'm fair with them and they 're fair with me |
| 22 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 23 | Duncan said it was the best that he had ever seen . |
| 24 | Both Bryan Robson and Alex Ferguson said it was the best they had ever seen a Wimbledon side play — it makes a change to get credit when it 's due . ’ |
| 25 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 26 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 27 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 28 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 30 | We saw him in action in South Africa for the World XV in 1989 and the guys who faced him said he is the best in the business . ’ |