Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [pers pn] ever [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest we ever got to Twickenham was Cardiff . ’ |
| 2 | I think that was the nearest we ever got to going to far-away places . |
| 3 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 4 | He had lost his eye when he was a young child , and the nearest he ever got to France was a trip to Brighton . |
| 5 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 6 | I got him a couple of times but he was one of the best I ever bowled to . |
| 7 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 8 | On reflection he admits that the 1983 Ulster final against Donegal was probably the closest he ever came to capturing an elusive Ulster senior championship medal . |
| 9 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |