Example sentences of "we [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made the best of it . |
| 2 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 3 | From then on we became the best of friends , to the extent that I ca n't remember us having even one argument . ’ |
| 4 | And yet , it just clicked after a while that she is , yes I do n't know , we became the best of friends . |
| 5 | But we became the firmest of friends and kept in touch by letter afterwards until she sadly died . |
| 6 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 7 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 8 | But the promises with work that we had when we went in the army , you j you 'd be looked after We got the worst damn place anybody could . |
| 9 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 10 | We grew throughout the 1980s better than any other major European country except Spain : we received the highest growth in manufacturing productivity of any Group of Seven country and faster growth in business investment than any other G7 country except Japan . |
| 11 | The group 's new-found confidence was shown in April 1957 , on the first anniversary of Chernobyl , when we organized the biggest ever rally at Hinkley Point . |
| 12 | Bayezid writes , ‘ We enjoyed the greatest pleasure in seeing how the severed heads of the Christian dukes rolled under the horses ’ hooves , and how many of them with tied hands , and others with broken legs , stood by . ’ |
| 13 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 14 | There 's this guy I 'm hoping to see in Paris this week is Vincent Winter who is the designer of Rolling Stone and we worked the best of everybody here off of each other . |
| 15 | We hailed the nearest bargemen and they ran a plank down for us . |
| 16 | We decided the best way to do that was to put in this questionnaire . |
| 17 | We decided the best way to deal with that question is through a capital bid and that 's what we 've done . |
| 18 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 19 | We thought the worst that would happen would be a national partition with Jews and Arabs still living in their own homes . |
| 20 | But if we took the highest price of everything then we 're making thousands and thousands and thousands . |
| 21 | We took the shortest route back to the clubhouse . |
| 22 | At the back we took the worst of it . |
| 23 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 24 | In our evaluation of the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms we considered over 100 publications on the subject before we chose the best available evidence for inclusion in the decision analysis — this is not the ‘ narrow range ’ claimed by Shearman and colleagues . |
| 25 | We chose the best of a not too brilliant bunch , made a ludicrous offer which to our astonishment was accepted , and we were on the road . |
| 26 | ‘ But we chose the highest quality file servers , because if one of those goes down you lose the whole network . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We chose the worst f—in' year to do that , ’ laments Gordon . |
| 28 | But we saw the best bit Paulie . |
| 29 | After living rough for some time she decided that we offered the best chance of a home , and moved in Fizzy 's attitude is ambivalent . |
| 30 | We did the best we could |