Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young deb visiting her brother at Oxford , she first met the rather moody , womanising Baron Michael de Stempel . |
| 2 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 3 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 4 | In this day room we again met the most interesting folk . |
| 5 | I met the most determined teenage resistance ever . |
| 6 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 7 | In Chapter 5 we met the more sophisticated idea of the evolutionarily stable set of genes . |
| 8 | Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle : |
| 9 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 10 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 11 | It was on the tip of Breeze 's tongue to ask what was the matter , but she knew that Susan would condemn that as being too impulsive ; so she endured the very uncomfortable atmosphere for the rest of the drive . |
| 12 | One shop in the Isle of Man , which never did any stocktaking , unearthed the most wonderful collection of 1920s toys . |
| 13 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
| 14 | ‘ We have , I believe , passed the most difficult point , ’ Mr Waigel said . |
| 15 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |
| 16 | Inset below Pulled and pushed tourists made the rather undignified scramble up the pyramids in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The new democratic notions of his countrymen clearly made the traditionally harsh maritime discipline difficult to enforce . |
| 18 | Adam Smith made the most explicit statements in support of the idea that education improves the quality of labour and hence raises economic growth . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Salisbury got to his feet and made the most amazing pronouncement in the two-day debate . |
| 20 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 21 | In the event , Ramsay himself made the most useful contributions to the debate , with the young Steward and Moray backing him , the Regent out of his depth and almost pathetically grateful for any guidance he could get . |
| 22 | Yet another senior parliamentary colleague , Ivan Lawrence , Member for Burton , a barrister and chairman of the party 's Home Affairs Committee , on 21 May 1992 made the most effective critique of the concept of subsidiarity that I have witnessed . |
| 23 | SUPER boss Maurice Lindsay has confirmed he is ready to sever his links with Wigan — the club her made the most successful in the world . |
| 24 | You could say that , somehow , he made the most convincing of the would-be-leaders ' speeches . |
| 25 | It was J. A. Hobson who made the most influential and original attempt to come to grips with the nature of the new imperialism . |
| 26 | A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations . |
| 27 | He beat the air with his hands and made the most heart-rending cries . |
| 28 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 29 | ‘ Not long ago , a cuckoo made the most almighty noise ever heard in Borrowdale . |
| 30 | In the event , it was the Prime Minister who made the most personal attacks on her challenger in a series of last minute newspaper interviews . |