Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now it was coming true , because he was smiling … and she decided there and then that it was one of the nicest smiles she had ever seen . |
| 2 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 3 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 4 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 5 | If you are using a thicker yarn , particularly a fancy one , then some of the nicest fabrics I 've seen were ones where you 'd hardly suspect the presence of a punchcard . |
| 6 | In contrast Ralph Shergold who took Standard Four was not only a splendid teacher but also one of the nicest men I have ever known . |
| 7 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 8 | But Guy Sterne is one of the nicest men I know . |
| 9 | He 's one of the nicest men I 've ever met in my life . |
| 10 | THE nicest chocolates we 've tried lately are called Cerisettes , have a real cherry stone in the middle and liqueur that runs all down your chin . |
| 11 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 12 | Where information is adequate from the poorest nations it points to a close relationship between poverty , underdevelopment and the spread of AIDS . |
| 13 | He is one of the finest hairdressers we have and there is nothing he ca n't do with hair ; whether it 's chignons for Princess Alexandra , wigs for Cher of shoots for vogue . |
| 14 | One of the finest ones I was ever on , which we enjoyed , it was n't a new ship by any means , but it was the Lancastrian |
| 15 | She never used the cane but was one of the finest teachers I have known . |
| 16 | ‘ One of the finest appointments I have ever made ’ . |
| 17 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 18 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 19 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 20 | Whittingham wrote of him : ‘ One of the finest characters I have met . |
| 21 | She 's a good girl , provides us with the largest eggs you 've ever seen . |
| 22 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 23 | The largest tortoises you will see in the park are descended from specimens from Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean . |
| 24 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's as good , for his age , as they 've got , and his wife is one of the sweetest women I know in this town . |
| 26 | ( Because research on human beings presents the greatest difficulties we shall concentrate initially on this area . ) |
| 27 | In your time as a district nurse , what were the greatest changes you noticed ? |
| 28 | As we start a new year and approach a new century , one of the greatest challenges we face is that of environmental protection . |
| 29 | Training within the home in an informal ‘ conference ’ situation greatly benefits the development of the awareness that time to listen is one of the greatest gifts we give to those we love . |
| 30 | Your imagination is possibly one of the greatest gifts you possess and it is up to you to cherish and improve it . |