Example sentences of "i be [adj] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am ready at any time , any place to take part in such a debate . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm lousy at small talk , and it helped . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 5 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 6 | But I could set up this magazine , I was good at that sort of thing . |
| 7 | I was good at English history , sport |
| 8 | It was very embarrassing and I was shocked at this behaviour from a person I had thought of as kind of shy and introverted . ’ |
| 9 | The only other Hurricane of which I was aware at this time was flown by Hamish Hamilton , which was ahead and to my left . |
| 10 | Needless to say I was staggered at this result . |
| 11 | I tell you what I nearly wa , I nearly did end up like he did , I was frightened at one time ! |
| 12 | ( I was glad at this time to remember that a woman in our own suburb had said to her once , ‘ I think you are the most attractive girl in the village ! ’ ) |
| 13 | I was useless at this job … . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |