Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 2 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 3 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 4 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 5 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 6 | For me there has always been — and I count it the greatest of all blessings — a window never finally blacked out , a light never finally extinguished . |
| 7 | Kate said quickly , ‘ Have I told you the latest about Carinish Court ? ’ |
| 8 | I owe them the worst : they all but destroyed me " ) , all this made Nizan an obvious candidate for a highly sectarian , aggressive , isolationist communist party . |
| 9 | Ooh I think I like yours the best , this is a bit heavy . |
| 10 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 11 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 12 | Well I tell you the best one is |
| 13 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 14 | Shall I tell them the latest news ? |
| 15 | ‘ I brought you the best of what was left , ’ Simon went on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 18 | I gave her the best books |
| 19 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 20 | Beautiful Swaledale I love thee the best , |
| 21 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 22 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
| 23 | I was interested to hear the Hon. Gentleman raise the subject of the scanner proposal , and I wish it the best of success . |
| 24 | His name was Edward Greenwood , and as they all sat down , he said , ‘ I 've heard all about you from Helen and I wish you the best of luck . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish you the safest of safe journeys back . ’ |
| 26 | Today I have had a reply to a parliamentary question to the Minister , which tells me the latest figures of young people currently in young offender institutions . |
| 27 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is best to shop around all the banks to see which gives you the best long-term deal rather than the biggest incentive to join . |
| 30 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |