Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not having a copy of Class War : Britain 's Most Unruly Tabloid to hand , and doubtful of getting one at short notice , I ask if he has the telephone number . |
| 2 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 3 | This does not imply that existing defectives should be done away with , nor that we should condemn the decision of a couple , whose foetus is at risk , that to have a retarded baby would be preferable to having none at all . |
| 4 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 5 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 6 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 7 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |