Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] at that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm surprised at that Rog cos we 've
2 I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this .
3 But I could set up this magazine , I was good at that sort of thing .
4 And er I was unmarried at that time and erm I , for a number of , well till nineteen forty was the end of nineteen forty I think , I joined up and went into the , the R A O C as it was then , it became the the side that I was in of course .
5 ‘ Yes , yes , you 're good at that sort of thing , ’ said Dorcas .
6 We know from the appearances that you were present at that enquiry .
7 Telling him you were pregnant at that point in time was the height of selfishness , ’ he went on .
8 We do n't get the impression erm of whether you were airborne at that stage .
9 Now , that in a sense , would have fitted much much better into the Playhouse , and had we been open at that stage , there 's a jolly good chance that that show would have actually come to us rather than going there .
10 And I could rely on them because they were good at that job you see , particular job .
11 After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission .
12 Well it 's it 's annoying at that point .
13 It 's it 's horrible at that age , in n it ?
14 It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses .
15 Yeah , he 's quite useful , he 's good at that sort of thing erm
16 L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft .
17 For John it was hard at that moment to remember the calm imperatives of economic law .
18 It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job .
19 He was right at that time because he was , shall we say , " in season " , an exceptional pilot .
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