Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the best of chemical engineering within AEA is what the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service will be focusing on in a two day conference starting on 30 November 1993 . |
| 2 | He told the Echo today : ‘ Hopefully I 'm looking at the best year of my life . |
| 3 | They go a a Medici shop or Athena or whatever and they 're looking at the best . |
| 4 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 5 | She hated losing at the best of times but this was the worst . |
| 6 | As it happens , he would n't be arriving at the best possible moment : William Charles , 14 years his brother 's senior , was finding his own fame and fortune rather on the wane just at that time — he did n't need those supercilious letters from William Jowett in Jamaica to remind him of that . |
| 7 | If your lounge is equipped with batteries of spot-lamps and other sophisticated facilities , you could spend an hour or so trying out all kinds of variations before arriving at the best effect . |
| 8 | ‘ I disapprove of killing at the best of times , Ace , but , and this is vitally important , you must never kill anyone with a role in recorded history if you can possibly avoid it . |