Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see them at their best , keep a small shoal , although in an aquarium of your size , two should be quite happy . |
| 2 | To see them at their best , keep a small shoal . |
| 3 | Leeds were annoying me at their sudden inability to keep the ball on the pitch , either kicking it off , or playing stupid passes up front ( down the middle ) straight to their keeper/defenders . |
| 4 | It 's catching them at it that 's difficult . |
| 5 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 6 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 7 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 8 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 9 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 10 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 11 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid you have n't caught us at our best . |
| 13 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 've seen me at my worst . ’ |
| 15 | c I think I she 'd seen me at my worst on Friday |
| 16 | ‘ My dear girl , you could never in your life look like an old hag , and you seem to forget that so far I 've never seen you at your best . |
| 17 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 18 | Pushing her at me that way . |
| 19 | The Forza del destino arias opening this disc show her at her best . |
| 20 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 21 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 22 | Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ he said , a soft laugh escaping him at her obvious embarrassment . |
| 24 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've seen it at its best , ’ Harriet answered , wishing the girl did not sound so patronising . |
| 26 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 27 | So I suppose one could say that you 've seen us at our worst , and anything else can only be an improvement . ’ |
| 28 | Please state which regional final you would be able to attend from the list below , and provide a second option in case it is not possible to accommodate you at your first choice of location . |
| 29 | really got to play them at their own game really . |
| 30 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |