Example sentences of "best [noun sg] of his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rotting in prison for the best part of his life , or a dishonourable death at the end of a rope . |
| 2 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 3 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 4 | Perhaps the best description of his composition has come from the New York Times ’ John Rockwell , who called it a mixture of mathematical clarity and mystical allure . |
| 5 | Clark , undoubtedly the best driver of his era , lifted the world title in the revolutionary Lotus 25 , with its Monocoque construction , in 1963 and 1965 . |
| 6 | The best footballer of his year he was also regularly in trouble with one teacher or another . |
| 7 | The musical composition is lost ; and this is a great loss , for according to William of Malmesbury , Osbern was the best musician of his day . |
| 8 | Ferguson claims he is in the best condition of his career and is completely focused . |
| 9 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 10 | Saunders , on international duty here for Wales against Belgium tomorrow , ( Wednesday ) , believes his £2.3 million move from Liverpool to Aston Villa has transformed him , and resulted in the production of the best football of his career . |
| 11 | That 's the view of a man now arguably playing the best football of his career . |
| 12 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 13 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 14 | Scrum-half Steve Bates is playing the best rugby of his life and wants to add to his one cap . |
| 15 | Wilkinson was in poor spirits after losing both his matches in the recent Davis Cup match with Hungary in Budapest , on clay , but the grass court season has given him renewed zest and he is playing the best tennis of his career . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that Jason , like many others , had the best night of his life , the 12-hour event passed off uneventfully . |
| 17 | The editor then closed the correspondence on the Foreign Office and Jackson thought that though Ruskin 's intervention , Scott had lost in Freeman ‘ the best champion of his cause ’ . |
| 18 | And that could open the way for Martin Brundle , fired by Benetton , but second yesterday in the best finish of his career . |
| 19 | Mr Carter , 21 , of Darlington , has passed out of the School of Recruit Training at RAF Swinderby near Lincoln as Best Recruit of his Intake . |
| 20 | But Randolph did n't mind one little bit as it was the best day of his life . |
| 21 | AFTER the best week of his career , crowned by the unexpectedly decisive victory of the centre-right Alliance for Germany in the East German election on March 18th , Mr Helmut Kohl is well on the way to becoming chancellor of a united Germany , possibly next year . |
| 22 | Lancashire rider Ian Newton produced the best performance of his career when he won the 250cc class in the second round of the European road-racing championship at Kirkistown , County Down . |
| 23 | Maurice Melloul 's guidelines for the success of the purchasing agent in Dow corning sum up the professionalism that lies behind the words : ‘ The agent must : exercise close cost control build long term relationships bring negotiations to a ‘ win-win ’ conclusion promote and sell the best image of his company be knowledgeable about the supplier 's market and end-use applications . ’ |
| 24 | was intrumental in bringing Thorstvedt to Tottenham and the former England keeper also believes he 's enjoying the best form of his life . |
| 25 | The 24-year-old central defender has hit the best form of his career . |
| 26 | He has shown the best form of his career and won over boo-boys on the Ayresome Park terraces . |
| 27 | He repeated the best win of his career — over the Soviet No.1 , Andrei Mazunov , in Moscow last season — by saving a game point at 21-22 and going on to win 24-22 , 21-12 . |
| 28 | The animal had been plunging towards the shelter of a riverside bamboo grove when he fired and it had probably been the best shot of his life . |
| 29 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |
| 30 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |