Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hare 's sights are set high , but he thinks it best not to listen to those who predict a bright future for him . |
| 2 | Hare 's sights are set high , but he thinks it best not to listen to those who predict a bright future for him . |
| 3 | He thought it best to give her a quick kiss and talk as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 5 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 6 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |