Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 2 | " It 's the nicest present I 've ever had " I said . |
| 3 | That is the greatest script I have ever read . |
| 4 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 5 | Lillee , Hall , Lindwall , Miller and Allen are greater names for the past ) ; and not only that this is the longest sentence I 've ever put together . |
| 6 | Her eyes are the keenest green I have ever seen as though they , too , have been dyed . |
| 7 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 8 | I had about a mile to go , and it was the longest mile I have ever covered in my life . |
| 9 | On being dug out he claimed to have spent , ‘ … the longest night I have ever passed ’ . |
| 10 | The cheapest rate I came across was right down at the southern tip of the country where Invercargill 's Southland Aero Club were virtually giving a Tomahawk away for NZ$80 per hour solo ( £24.25 ) . |
| 11 | No , I 've had 2 other books published er previously by the same publishers , er one was in Berkshire , one was in Hampshire , very much along the same sort of lines , er I think the longest walk I did probably would be about sort of 7 or 8 miles with those , er just as , you know , er the walks in , in , in this particular book are no more than 7 or 8 miles . |
| 12 | ‘ To signal like that was the smartest thing I 've ever come across in my life , and I 'll never forget it — ever . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I know I 've been a trial to you ever since Mother died , and running away with Garry was n't the smartest thing I 've ever done , but at least I met Roman because I was foolish and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me , will he ? ’ |
| 14 | Examples of underpresenting lots at Sotheby 's included lot 9 , ‘ Three figures at a table ’ by a follower of Caravaggio , which found its own price at £105,000 ( $168,000 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) ; lot 12 ‘ Christ in the house of Martha and Mary ’ by Vasari , ‘ the cheapest Vasari I 've ever seen ’ , was one comment , which made £9,000 ( $14,400 ) ; and lot 92 , ‘ The Annunciation ’ , a late work by Procaccini which made £92,000 ( $147,200 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) . |
| 15 | Robin Wood , however , defended the film , comparing it favourably with A Clockwork Orange ( 'the ugliest film I have ever seen' ) of the same year . |
| 16 | The longest time I have ever been alone with her . |
| 17 | To me it 's the unhappiest house I 've ever been to . |
| 18 | On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's the loudest noise I have ever heard . |
| 20 | ‘ This could be the saddest dusk I 've ever seen ’ he laments on ‘ Half A World Away ’ , while the desolate ‘ Low ’ sees him in gloom overdrive to a bass and bongos backing . |
| 21 | And : ‘ You are the purest person I 've ever known . ’ |
| 22 | The biggest blackest spider I have ever seen in my life . |
| 23 | ‘ This is the stupidest thing I 've ever heard of , ’ he said . |
| 24 | And out of the dark woods came the black man , leading his horse on one arm , and on the other a tall grey hound with the saddest face I have ever seen on any creature . |
| 25 | When the British Union of Fascists held its Brighton rally in 1934 , Joyce proclaimed Mosley before the mass of spectators as ‘ the greatest Englishman I have ever known ’ . |
| 26 | This is quite the worst case I have ever heard of.It 's an outrage and proves that the government is quite wrong to claim that the health service is improving |
| 27 | Sexist concept , lousy gameplay and some of the worst digitisation I 've ever seen make this puerile excuse for a game every bit as bad as that offensive little rag The Daily Sport . |
| 28 | In ponies this condition is called ‘ Sweet Itch ’ which is the worst misnomer I 've ever heard . |
| 29 | Or organizer should I say , you 're the worst organizer I 've ever met . |
| 30 | In the centre of the room , sitting at a table , was the strangest lady I have ever seen , or shall ever see . |