Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 2 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 3 | Willi had given them the briefest of explanations for their presence being required but they were becoming as alarmed as Gesner by this talk of lawsuits and the resignation of Franz Busacher . |
| 4 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 5 | He had bought himself the latest issue of Wildlife and was immersed in an article about otters . |
| 6 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 7 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 8 | I had proved myself the fittest by the mere act of survival . |
| 9 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |