Example sentences of "his most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt 's fine victory at Zandvoort , which I remember as one of his most controlled and patient races , also marked Hunt 's twenty-ninth birthday . |
| 2 | Gradually he undermined the potential of one of his most profitable production centres . |
| 3 | But Teutonic gravitas marks his most typical work and he is strikingly responsive to German verse . |
| 4 | It was Gharr , with his most arrogant grin . |
| 5 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 6 | Hence-forward an astute man by adherence to legal rules which had nothing to do with morality could grow immeasurably rich by virtue of shuffling off his most elementary obligations to his fellows . |
| 7 | Souness was at his most ludicrous after Saturday 's 5-1 defeat at Coventry , claiming that the referee was entirely at fault and that his team was the one that deserved to score five . |
| 8 | The usual characters of the two composers are reversed here ; there is little of the English scene-painter in Britten 's Sonata , and it stands as one of his most nervous and angry works . |
| 9 | In 1917 , as if in defiance of the death and destruction all around him , Modigliani painted his most glorious series of nudes . |
| 10 | Leaping around the stage like a hyperactive elf , his relationship with the audience is notably more relaxed and chatty than his most caustic and hectoring period . |
| 11 | One of his most extravagant displays was in a race against a Jaguar racing car at Abingdon 18 months ago . |
| 12 | Giving me his most tender childlike smile he murmured , ‘ Well , what a very wonderful occasion , ’ and resumed his task . |
| 13 | He spoke with all his habitual power of his recent follies ‘ abberations from prudence ’ as he called them — and of his resolve now ‘ to be as sober and rational as his most sober friends could wish ’ . |
| 14 | But in fact George Brown had a considerable edge over Labour 's later candidate , David Owen , who offended the mandarins of King Charles Street with a quiet deliberation that was wholly lacking in George even in his most sober moments . |
| 15 | The would-be assassins missed their prey , and Phar Lap , unperturbed by the incident , duly won the Stakes and then ran one of his most brilliant races to lift the Cup , for which he carried nine stone twelve pounds and started at 11–8 on , the shortest-priced favourite in the history of the race . |
| 16 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 17 | Drawing has always preceded painting ; Pisanello is at his most innovative in his drawings , as is also Jacopo Bellini . |
| 18 | His most endearing habit ? |
| 19 | His most endearing was how loving he was at the start . |
| 20 | He had a boyish , slightly abstracted look , that was his most endearing expression . |
| 21 | Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . |
| 22 | When he thinks he has he is at his most dangerous . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And that 's it ? ’ said her papa quietly ; he was always at his most dangerous when he was quiet . |
| 24 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |
| 25 | In his most familiar guise , as a literary figure , he is brave , heroic , loyal , a good husband and father , a redoubtable foe and a man of honour . |
| 26 | ( His most categorical assertions of this are in Guide to Kul- chur . ) |
| 27 | The Captain sent his Adjutant for the Sardinian file and then set about selecting a group of his most experienced men . |
| 28 | Among his students were Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff , and the Borough period coincided with his most fruitful post-war painting expeditions : Cornwall in August 1947 , and Cyprus in the summer of the following year . |
| 29 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |