Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb base] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 2 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 3 | What 's the worst lie you 've ever told ? |
| 4 | Earlier , that same hole , Sam Torrance had hit the longest drive I think I have ever seen in competitive golf . |
| 5 | At the time , Peter Alliss said it was the longest drive he 'd seen in his life . |
| 6 | Tennis rackets give you a lot of power but the most power you get from the body . |
| 7 | Two minutes is the most time they spend in the lightness , and four to six minutes in the darkness . |
| 8 | For example , in the old 16+ system , despite a gradual improvement in girls ' achievements ( see , for example , the table below ) , each year more boys than girls were entered for O level mathematics , and of those who entered , a higher proportion of boys than girls obtained grade A. At CSE , the entry ( and pass ) rate of girls has in recent years been higher than that of boys — but boys have obtained the most grade I passes . |
| 9 | The less exercise you do , the more unfit you will become , and the harder everyday tasks will seem . |
| 10 | The main thing to remember is that the heart is simply a pump : the less work it has to do ( the less beats it makes ) , the longer it is going to last . |
| 11 | It 's the only think I know how to do , ’ he confesses . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the only think I know how to do ’ |
| 13 | It was the hardest blow he had ever taken . |
| 14 | After all , I do n't pay my head stallion man the kinda wage he gets for being incompetent . ’ |
| 15 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 16 | And was n't it just the best meatloaf you had ever tasted ? ’ |
| 17 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 18 | Main picture Squaring the circle Below left Ingrid 's Granny Gorie — ‘ the best seamstress I 've ever had ’ — has been an invaluable source of advice Right and below right Orkney 's stark shorelines , wide skies and drifting clouds are echoed in Ingrid 's landscape pattern |
| 19 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 20 | ‘ And you know , do n't you , Jez , the best strike we 've made this season is you . ’ |
| 21 | The fact that people will give money to save the otter , a nocturnal animal whose presence is detected even by full-time otter survey teams only by its tracks and droppings , is the best answer I know to that mean-spirited and illogical argument : ‘ What 's the use of saving it , if I ca n't see it ? ’ |
| 22 | Ballesteros described his 66 yesterday as ‘ the best round I 've played this year ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the best match I have ever played in and proof that the underdog can sometimes come out on top . ’ |
| 24 | He knows I 'm the best jock he 's got here . |
| 25 | It 's the best show they 've got . |
| 26 | He likes Basingstoke and as the youngest member of the cast of 16 , he is enjoying himself immensely as Young Charlie in Little Tramp — he reckons it is the best show he 's been in . |
| 27 | With the proviso that such patients may have atypical cerebral organisation for speech the amytal test provides the best estimate we have of speech lateralisation in left and mixed-handers . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 29 | Once again , thanks for the best laugh I 've had since my friend Daniel fell out of a transit van I was driving when I unexpectedly chucked a right . |
| 30 | The other major work from this year was the Quintet for piano and wind — ‘ the best work I have written , ’ according to Mozart 's catalogue . |