Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says . |
| 3 | " It 's the nicest present I 've ever had " I said . |
| 4 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 5 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 6 | The greatest pleasure I gave him was the fact that nobody knew about me . |
| 7 | The merest action I managed to take seemed infinitely long in completing . |
| 8 | They say : He was the nicest horse I ever knew . |
| 9 | That is the greatest script I have ever read . |
| 10 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 11 | Archbishop William Temple [ q.v. ] , who described him as ‘ the finest priest I have known ’ , characterized him as evangelical without a trace of Puritanism , and fired by a strong Catholic sacramentalism , with the cross at the heart of it all . |
| 12 | The nicest compliment I 'm paid , inside and outside the business , is when people say how professional I am . |
| 13 | The nicest compliment I 'm ever paid is when someone comes up to me and says : " You 're no different from what you are on the screen " . |
| 14 | It is an observable fact that the greatest drivers I have known have all been highly safety conscious : a sign that their minds ruled their instincts . |
| 15 | Dark Star man , that , that had to be the funniest movie I ever saw , I saw it when I was about ten . |
| 16 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 17 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
| 18 | Lillee , Hall , Lindwall , Miller and Allen are greater names for the past ) ; and not only that this is the longest sentence I 've ever put together . |
| 19 | Er the cheapest route I should say , it 's an amalgam of erm travel time and cost . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll wear the sexiest swimsuit I can find ! |
| 21 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 22 | Her eyes are the keenest green I have ever seen as though they , too , have been dyed . |
| 23 | I confess she was one of the merriest tumbles I have ever had . |
| 24 | The longest period I 've abstained was two-and-a-half months . |
| 25 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 26 | I had about a mile to go , and it was the longest mile I have ever covered in my life . |
| 27 | ‘ The longest day I can remember at Needham smithy was the day of the Stowmarket Christmas sale — I forget the exact year . |
| 28 | The strongest criticism I heard came from Dr Alistair Brewis , consultant chest physician and medical director of the Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 29 | I repeated my fruitless exercise at the end of October , and again at the end of November , when I finally relented and paid the cheapest price I could get . |
| 30 | On being dug out he claimed to have spent , ‘ … the longest night I have ever passed ’ . |