Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning briefly to Dublin , she next went to Rome and Athens to do more studying before coming to work in the British Museum , and going to live in Knutsford , Cheshire , where she did her greatest work , the bust of Archbishop Alexander , Primate of All Ireland , which stands today in Armagh Cathedral . |
| 2 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 3 | The Chieftains rarely enjoy their trips to South London , where they suffered their heaviest defeat of the season 16–3 in December . |
| 4 | Although I did my best not to , something of my scepticism must have betrayed itself , for Mr Farraday then added , as though for reassurance , that were it to prove necessary , then an additional member of staff could be hired . |
| 5 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 6 | I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip . |
| 7 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 8 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 9 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So I thought it best to lie low for a while ; keep the nose clean by cutting out the rowdies . |
| 11 | He was feeling a bit low , so I did my best to cheer him up . ’ |
| 12 | as if she could forget , although she tried her hardest ! |
| 13 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 14 | It was last year in Denmark that she reached her lowest ebb . |
| 15 | Really , thought Liz , really : Deirdre was exactly the kind of neurotic that she did her best , professionally , to avoid — narcissistic , exhibitionistic , selfish , manipulative , childish , unreliable , unpunctual , self-satisfied even in the depths of self-reproach , and yet there she somehow managed to stand , in the middle of Liz 's own kitchen , brandishing a pie knife . |
| 16 | You can console yourself with the thought that you did your best . |
| 17 | I know that you did your best , and you said yourself that the poor thing had little hope of surviving the birth ’ — his attitude to her had changed . |
| 18 | She did n't want to sound rude , so she smiled her sweetest smile and said , ‘ I thought I 'd already got the job , Doctor . |
| 19 | It was in Geo-related work that we experienced our greatest problems during the year , leading to the closure of our Scottish and Billingham offices , and the reduction of Warrington from two offices to one . |
| 20 | ‘ No player … has shown greater ability to retain possession of the ball … his passes are invariably accurate and reach a forward so that the latter can make rapid headway ’ eulogised a Palace scribe back in 1913 , by which time H.H. ( as he was popularly called ) had become our club captain — indeed it was while Harry was our skipper that we had our best Southern League season and went within an ace of winning the Championship in 1914 . |
| 21 | I am simply trying to suggest that we do our best to ensure they report it accurately . |
| 22 | yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it |
| 23 | I would like to propose that we send our best wishes and congratulations to Trevor to mark that marvellous achievement . |
| 24 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 25 | German teams have proved in the past that they produce their best football in the heat of competition . |
| 26 | Mike Sheron also played , so they had their best 4 players , and we wont come across a much quicker defence this season , and STILL managed to create chances all the way thru the match . |
| 27 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 28 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 29 | It seems likely that he owed his remarkable escape to the fact that his house lay right on the fringe of the nuee ardente , in the extreme south-east of the town , so that he escaped its worst effects . |
| 30 | It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination ! |