Example sentences of "to [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 2 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 4 | He is to me the greatest genius of our century . |
| 5 | ‘ When I say to people that Edward Wood [ Irwin 's name before his ennoblement on appointment to the viceroyalty ] seems to me the highest kind of Englishman now in politics , many of them ’ , Begbie admitted , ‘ look surprised and perplexed . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses . |
| 7 | To me the biggest problem must be over publishing . |
| 8 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 9 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 10 | Ever to him the greatest mirth , content |
| 11 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 12 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 13 | Even if it is a sort of solution to the problem it is unlikely to he the simplest or the cheapest . |
| 14 | Knowledge of the extent of this variation is required , especially on what are likely to he the worst conditions , and if possible sampling should be done in the winter and spring in the British Isles , when the run-off after rain tends to be heavy , as well as in the summer . |
| 15 | The morally estimable act of exposing to us the worst in ourselves nearly always has something morally equivocal about it . |