Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ We had our Christmas Day on Boxing Day and I had the best ever Christmas with my children and grandchildren . ’ |
| 2 | Doo doo and I took the best . |
| 3 | The colonel and I parted the best of friends . |
| 4 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 5 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that Bettinson 's contract had expired ‘ and we wanted the best man for the job … and that is Maurice . |
| 9 | Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that Bettinson 's contract had expired ‘ and we wanted the best man for the job … and that is Maurice . |
| 10 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 11 | Crawford and his wife Gabrielle shared a villa with John and Cynthia Lennon , and they became the best of friends . |
| 12 | Our leader known to all as ‘ BK ’ , was an experienced Himalayan mountaineer and he knew the best local porters . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He loved beautiful things , and he employed the best builders and gardeners in England to work on Fullcircle . |
| 15 | He had the best for himself and he wanted the best for his Mollie . |
| 16 | ‘ Swan Light reduced its price from 52p to 32p a can and it performed the best of the nablabs , even out-selling Kaliber , ’ she says . |
| 17 | ‘ Swan Light reduced its price from 52p to 32p a can and it performed the best , even outselling Kaliber ’ — Ann Tonks |