Example sentences of "had [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he had the faintest idea of the contents of the envelope he carried within the breast pocket of the jacket he declined to hand over to the stewardess . |
| 2 | He was always surprised that no one else had the faintest idea of what he was talking about . |
| 3 | They did not pray two rak'ahs before making love , or perform wudu after intercourse ( perhaps because neither of them had the faintest idea what wudu might be ) , and they were woefully deficient in the sacrifice and dowry departments . |
| 4 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 5 | He had the faintest intimation that Joanna despised him . |
| 6 | Frequently , Kirov wondered if his Western contacts had the faintest conception of how difficult his work was , under the vastly different circumstances which prevailed in the two societies . |
| 7 | He turned back to what he was doing , his long fingers working quickly and expertly at the job , and she had the faintest feeling that she was being dismissed . |
| 8 | Mrs O'Neill had the sweetest tooth in Adam 's Creek , and Jed won a place in her affections on his very first day by buying her a Rocky Road on his way back from work . |
| 9 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 10 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |
| 11 | The three concerned were TWW , with whom I had the closest ties , Southern Television and Granada . |
| 12 | At any rate , the night 's most repeatable joke concerned the three bairns talking in the playground about whose dad had the fastest job . |
| 13 | Thomas Jensen , from Denmark , had the fastest time and Dutchman Robert Binnenweg was best in the air but it was Hutchison 's overall control on the steep 250m course that won the day . |
| 14 | He also had the fastest 400m time last year |
| 15 | Areas which supported reformist social democrat political parties ( as opposed to traditionalist Christian ones ) had the fastest fertility decline . |
| 16 | But she had the prettiest face and the sweetest smile you 've ever seen . |
| 17 | He was shirtless , had the merest hint of a moustache and smiled easily . |
| 18 | But neither of his partners had the remotest idea of the existence of Levels Two and Three . |
| 19 | Then his aunt 's jewels disappeared , and he had the oddest sensation of wanting Charity to have done it . |
| 20 | She had the oddest desire to touch the dark curls that danced on his head . |
| 21 | She had the oddest impression that she was taking part in a play , for which she knew neither her lines , nor the stage directions . |
| 22 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 23 | She had the nicest forehead I ever saw . ’ |
| 24 | For much of the 1950s and 1960s the Greeks had the fastest-growing economy and yet one of the lowest inflation rates in Europe . |
| 25 | This place , which 30 years ago had the fastest-growing economy in democratic Europe , is now an economic failure . |
| 26 | They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator . |
| 27 | Hazel now had the clearest knowledge of where he was . |
| 28 | At the same time he had the clearest image in his mind of the three of them : Fred , Daisy , and himself , and it was a spectacle of nothing but pleasure . |
| 29 | Although the oldest group ( 75–92 yr ) had the poorest survival , there was no overall association between age group and survival ( p=0.3 ) . |
| 30 | Distribution had the highest price to earnings valuation of 20.1 followed by Components at 19.2 , Application Hardware at 18.8 and Peripherals at 7.3 . |