Example sentences of "at his [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Lexington at his greasiest . |
| 2 | Now at his lowest ebb , Marinello can reflect on life in the fast lane . |
| 3 | At his lowest ebb , Macari was threatened with imprisonment and his wife rang friends to secure bail money of £50,000 . |
| 4 | The first is that you must be the correct distance from your opponent ; that is at his closest kicking range ( any closer and he wo n't kick at all ) . |
| 5 | And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too . |
| 6 | At his heaviest he was 18st 3lb , and he lost seven stone in 10 months . |
| 7 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 8 | The exchange shows neither Ransom nor Tate at his best . |
| 9 | And we have Landor — that is , Landor at his best . |
| 10 | No , Professor X , Pound does not say that Landor , or Landor at his best , is better than Keats ; and no , sir , he does not say that Chaucer is better than Milton . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 12 | Of course , he 'd given up medicine to pursue comedy , but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others . |
| 13 | He challenged for the Open Championship on one occasion , in 1927 at St Andrews , when he was unfortunate enough to run into Bobby Jones at his best . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope Seve is at his best . |
| 15 | Before the match Beck had said he hoped Ballesteros would be at his best and his wish was granted . |
| 16 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock was at his best when going easier on the general outrage , and harder on the specific details of the operation . |
| 18 | Parker , a defender of genuine quality , is at his best when playing sweeper . |
| 19 | He is at his best on soft ground and would be a danger to all off his present mark if he could find his best form . |
| 20 | It was not until 1974 that his ability to write and perform at his best gelled again , with the release of ‘ Blood on the Tracks ’ . |
| 21 | The bicentenary year is an opportunity and a challenge , as well as a danger : an opportunity to take stock and to hear and see Mozart at his best , a challenge to clear away the sentimental cobwebs and let Mozart speak , but a danger that the world will be engulfed in mass-marketed whimsy . |
| 22 | Man At His Best |
| 23 | An extraordinarily powerful book — in many ways reminiscent of Buchan at his best , but the Boy 's Own element is tempered by shocking and fear-inducing realism . |
| 24 | MORRISSEY November Spawned A Monster ( Parlophone ) A guest vocal from the wonderful Mary Margaret O'Hara still ca n't hide the fact that this is not the miserable one at his best |
| 25 | French-trained Lashkari , owned like Shernazar by the Aga Khan , had won the inaugural running of the Turf in 1984 but had not seemed at his best in 1985 . |
| 26 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 27 | When at his best , which has been quite often in recent years , Woosnam is a wonderful player to watch , with the sort of swing that is a model for any youngster . |
| 28 | John had always been at his best at Christmas , gay , funny , sweet , considerate . |
| 29 | ( His concern for the floundering Burnett showed Coleridge at his best during these months : Southey abandoned Burnett ; Coleridge stayed loyal to him , even though the two men were not special friends . ) |
| 30 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |