Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1951 he made his highest score , an 87 against Glamorgan , and also returned his best analysis , seven wickets for 49 against Lancashire , both at the Oval . |
| 2 | He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams . |
| 3 | He may be a bit ropey at times but he plays his best for us and do n't forget the goals he scored , including one which put paid to the scouse red shite in 1991 . |
| 4 | He raised his game to another level and when he plays his best , he 's a really tough player to beat . |
| 5 | And then he battered his highest score of the tour , hitting 165 in the opening Test match . |
| 6 | But it was one of my self-imposed duties to try to even out the peaks and troughs of his capricious temperament and make sure he produced his best golf when it mattered . |
| 7 | In the first round of the NatWest , he equalled his career-best performance in the competition with 6 for 21 as Cheshire collapsed to a 204-run defeat . |
| 8 | Hare 's sights are set high , but he thinks it best not to listen to those who predict a bright future for him . |
| 9 | Hare 's sights are set high , but he thinks it best not to listen to those who predict a bright future for him . |
| 10 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 11 | He tried his nicest smile , and prepared to whisper his suavest come-on line . |
| 12 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 13 | He found his best sport was — he tried to watch sports and tell people about them . |
| 14 | During the ‘ half ’ before the curtain rises , he has his twitchiest moments . |
| 15 | However , he has his easiest task to date at Lingfield and can gain a confidence-boosting victory in the Marsh Green Maiden . |
| 16 | St Jovite has landed an unfavourable outside draw , but he reserves his best form for right-handed tracks like Longchamp and he 's likely to be sharper than when beaten by Dr Devious at Leopardstown . |
| 17 | But he reserves his deepest angst for thespianism which is , according to this latter-day Irving , ‘ a pain , like a trip to the dentist — an unpleasant experience . ’ |
| 18 | He used his best prose on the earlier stuff about tongues meeting and breasts being cupped . |
| 19 | This interest led to a plethora of documentary work in China and Keith is planning another visit as soon as he finishes his latest project which he began last February . |
| 20 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 21 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 22 | He played his best shot of the round , a long , low 3-wood , which landed short of the slope at the front of the platform green and ran up level with the flag . |
| 23 | Flashing on terminals all over Japan , he disseminates his latest data through modem , warning other otaku on the Eye Net computer network to be on the lookout for some poser named Batman pushing stale info . |
| 24 | Can Spanish hero Carlos Cardus go one better in 1991 , or has he missed his biggest chance of winning the title ? |
| 25 | But best storyline of the night was the glint in Dougie 's eye as he plans his latest scam … stealing Mike Baldwin 's pride and joy no , not his mirror , his car . |
| 26 | It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination ! |
| 27 | These lonely hours may be the time he reaches his deepest despair . |
| 28 | So Scott has never been far from the sharp end — where all the action is , as they say — and he fired his latest salvo when Rhythm Section landed the Festival Bumper at Cheltenham for his brother-in-law , Belfast solicitor Robert Sinclair . |
| 29 | He reckons his best chance of managing a Football League team lies in ‘ taking Aylesbury there ’ . |
| 30 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |