Example sentences of "[adj -est] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 2 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 3 | Like going to sleep by contrasting a bed with a pavement , I sometimes find myself thinking that if the worst comes to the worst I can always earn a living by my hands ; I can scrub , clean , cook and sew ; all you have in the end is your labour . |
| 4 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 5 | If the worst comes to the worst I can do without that . |
| 6 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
| 7 | I think that is the nearest I could get to the orange . |
| 8 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 9 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
| 10 | I asked , mopping his face with some tepid water — the coldest I could find . |
| 11 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 12 | No , I ca n't ge , that 's the closest I can . |
| 13 | We 'll see , ’ is the best I 'll give her . |
| 14 | I could never get a decent swing with my left hand , but at best I would use it only to repel boarders . |
| 15 | These are frail reasons , but the best I can find , for canto 107 to begin with a flourish of Sicilian place-names : |
| 16 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 17 | My owners really wanted a Deerhound — this is the best I can do S J Hale , Cheshunt , Herts |
| 18 | A whole new generation of music sprouted up , the best I can remember . |
| 19 | ‘ But I do the best I can . ’ |
| 20 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 21 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
| 22 | I will do the best I can , naturally . |
| 23 | ‘ I hope I can go out and avoid accidents and do the best I can . ’ |
| 24 | As for my own disappointment , I will keep playing the best I can and hope things change . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The best I can offer you is a head start , get out of here and do n't ever come back . ’ |
| 26 | The requirement implied in this formulation , that I am always morally obliged to do the best I can , is accepted as reasonable by some commentators , while it is thought of as unreasonably demanding by others . |
| 27 | ‘ The best I can do is a heads of agreement outlining Harley 's deal . |
| 28 | Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can . |
| 29 | This is the best I can manage . " |
| 30 | ‘ Doing the best I can , I take the view here that although the delay was certainly not unjustified , as far as the effect is concerned it comes to this : I take the view , on the balance of probabilities , that the delay in these particular circumstances may well be prejudicial to the [ respondent ] in his defence . |