Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 2 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 3 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 4 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 5 | She liked it the best of all her books . |
| 6 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 7 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 8 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |