Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [noun] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most marvellous man I ever had in my life . |
| 2 | ‘ Did I ever tell you that you 're the most despicable man I ever met ? |
| 3 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's the most disgusting thing I ever heard , ’ said Betty , but she was smiling . |
| 5 | ‘ Helping you was the most stupid thing I ever did in my life . |
| 6 | He used to be the most stable guy I ever knew . |
| 7 | ‘ He was the most neutral man I ever knew . |
| 8 | I never really got to know her She was the most obtuse person I ever met . |
| 9 | It 's the most beautiful thing I ever seen . |
| 10 | God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw . |
| 11 | By the sixth day at Racedown , Coleridge had reached a settled opinion of his host : ‘ Wordsworth is a great man , ’ he wrote to John Prior Estlin in Bristol , a compliment which Wordsworth , half a lifetime later , repaid in subtly different terms when he described Coleridge as ‘ the most wonderful man I ever knew ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it 's the most wonderful thing I ever saw . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You were the most wonderful thing I ever saw , ’ he said firmly . |
| 14 | It was the most moving experience I ever had . |
| 15 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 16 | The first object he bought with his Midnight Cowboy money was a $700 antique desk , declaring : ‘ It 's the most important thing I ever bought . |
| 17 | She was one of the most gifted singers I ever worked with . |
| 18 | Alexandra said , ‘ He is the most interesting person I ever met in my life . ’ |
| 19 | One of one of one of the most charming speakers I ever heard , he was . |
| 20 | ‘ Not the most difficult try I ever scored , ’ he admitted , ‘ but probably one of the most important and , for me , unforgettable . |
| 21 | The most difficult thing I ever had to do in the cinema was to kiss Christopher Reeve . |
| 22 | In the middle of March , Vance made what he later called " one of the most distasteful recommendations I ever had to make to the president . " |
| 23 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 24 | A rather sharp creature I always thought , but there . |
| 25 | On his initial visit to the home of the bereaved he would feel that he had a very short ti me indeed to set out his wares and try and convince the family to buy the package . |