Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 2 | Next door , the Archdeacon 's shower was not quite hot enough , but he made the best of it . |
| 3 | Whether Gould greeted all of his contacts with a similarly gauche introduction or not , he made the best of his time in Sydney and called on , among others , the missionary Bishop of Australia , William Broughton , and Alexander MacLeay , first President of the Australian Museum at Sydney . |
| 4 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 5 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 6 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 7 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 8 | He became the best available villain for those who wished to fasten upon an individual to blame for Britain 's plight . |
| 9 | After education at Oxford , he became the greatest of all the priors at Bridlington . |
| 10 | The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours . |
| 11 | He became the youngest beneficiary in the coupon election of 1918 , fighting on a programme of ‘ socialistic imperialism ’ in his Harrow constituency . |
| 12 | Then a Chantry High School pupil aged 16 years and 56 days , he became the youngest player ever to play in a league match for the club . |
| 13 | Two years later , in 1972 , he became the youngest world champion . |
| 14 | GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 15 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 16 | The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) . |
| 17 | Until she said in front of the Rembrandt , ‘ Do n't you think he got the teeniest bit bored halfway through — I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel . |
| 18 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |
| 19 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 20 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 21 | Being appointed Waywarden he levelled the worst ‘ knaps ’ along the High Street , raised a part of Church Hill to a more even gradient and improved the pond below Carrants Court Farm where , as a boy , he drew water near his birth place . |
| 22 | Lester Piggott provided the York magic yesterday and he looks the biggest danger here on another unlucky Goodwood horse , Mudaffar . |
| 23 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 24 | Sir Philip , himself , is likewise full of praise for your son , for whom he has the highest regard . |
| 25 | Moran says he has the best collection of medieval furniture in private hands in the country , and he wants the hall to set it off . |
| 26 | ARSENAL boss George Graham reckons he has the best job in football — but he knows even he could suffer a Brian Clough-like backlash if the Gunners fail to win a trophy for the second year running . |
| 27 | He has the best supervisor in his team and the best people throughout . |
| 28 | He has the best training and development programmed Furthermore , he goes out of his way to ensure that his people get the best rewards for their labour . |
| 29 | And what we 're trying to do is to give him this family feeling that everybody behind here , the whole team , every single worker is rooting for him and making sure that he has the best . |
| 30 | Even if the Tories lose their overall majority , Mr Major is almost certain to seek to form a minority Government if he has the largest number of seats . |