Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] i had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galway was the strangest town I had ever visited , and I felt as if I were in a dream . |
| 2 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 3 | I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen . |
| 4 | Supper was excellent , and I spent the night in the smallest bedroom I had ever seen . |
| 5 | Lying inside , wrapped in a clean woollen shawl , was the smallest baby I had ever seen . |
| 6 | The red ooze continued , despite a long session of self-doctoring from the car boot , and when I finally drove away my finger was swathed in the biggest , clumsiest dressing I had ever seen . |
| 7 | It was the foremost achievement of my career up until then , and it was the greatest feeling I had ever had . |
| 8 | Apart from my great-grandfather , he was the oldest man I had ever met . |
| 9 | The signora was a white haired lady in her sixties , very thin and slightly bent , with a wrinkled face and a large number of gold teeth , while the signore was almost completely hidden from view behind the biggest stomach I had ever seen . |
| 10 | The slow gradient ended when the road climbed the steepest incline I had yet encountered . |