Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [adv] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
| 2 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 3 | When she woke she was further annoyed at having dreamed a category confusion , a man and a book , not realising that the category error was partly the answer to the uncouth question , since Proust was coterminous with a book as the eponymous Tom Jones was not . |
| 4 | She read a poem called I am not good at love , written by Noel Coward . |
| 5 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 6 | I thought you were still mad at me for carrying on my work and then I thought you were just waiting for Maria Luisa to come back before … oh , before making your decision … ’ |
| 7 | I thought you were really happy at the way things were working out . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 9 | I felt it was very important at this point in their childhood because I think they are such good company at this age . |
| 10 | She knew he was n't good at expressing himself . |
| 11 | Anyway , I knew he was pretty good at nicking . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought he was pretty efficient at putting the blame on everyone else . ’ |
| 13 | Now most of you said you 're not good at planning . |
| 14 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 15 | Now I said you were naturally good at it , why ? |
| 16 | Had he been truly ignorant at the time of what it was ? |
| 17 | she said it was very lonely at night when you were walking down the corridors . |
| 18 | Tom Lamb , for the cycling group , said it was highly dangerous at the moment for cyclists to cross the Tees to get to Stockton . |
| 19 | Bob Allan , chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen 's Federation , said he was bitterly disappointed at the outcome of the talks , which had failed to tackle the heart of the crisis facing the industry . |
| 20 | Speaking at the annual speech day , Nigel Thorne , headmaster of Rydal school in Colwyn , said he was increasingly concerned at what was happening to the education system which was faced with a ‘ testing monolith ’ . |
| 21 | Estate agent Mr Bell , 45 , said he was not surprised at the size of his wife 's will . |
| 22 | Phillips J. in De Martell , ante , p. 643A–B , having read the judgments in Walker , said he was not surprised at Potts J. 's view . |
| 23 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 24 | Mr Knight , who was a county councillor for Harwich for 12 years , said he was very upset at the latest snub but did not want to comment further until he had considered his next move . |
| 25 | Judge Clarke said he was very concerned at continuing violence in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | She suspected he was extremely good at this kind of game — this was the kind of game men and women played together . |