Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been adept at gaining support , for example for its electrification programme , by lobbying in parliament among MPs known to be interested in the rail sector , including the group of railway union-sponsored members . |
| 2 | His instructors at Unseen University , who had despaired of Rincewind 's inability to master levitation , would have then been amazed at the speed with which he reached and climbed the nearest tree , without apparently touching it . |
| 3 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 5 | She had only been mad at Dan , because he had brought up Patrick 's name when she wanted him to be a secret . |
| 6 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 7 | I 've always been good at thinking on my feet . |
| 8 | I 've always been good at saving . |
| 9 | I 've always been good at painting ; I 'd nearly finished my picture — which included the ark and a mountain when Miss began telling us how rainbows were all an illusion caused by sunlight and raindrops . |
| 10 | You 've always been good at that . ’ |
| 11 | I 've always been hopeless at riddles . |
| 12 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 13 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 14 | He had always been good at keeping still . |
| 15 | She went to Canonmills School , then Broughton Higher grade , and had always been good at reading and spelling . |
| 16 | They point out that whereas merchants had always been welcome at royal courts as vendors of precious things , in the eighth century , and increasingly in the ninth and tenth centuries , kings embarked on more ambitious attempts to exploit systematically the resources of their realms . |
| 17 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 18 | And predictably , McDonald and wife Juliet , who had also been present at the birth of the label , found themselves in financial trouble . |
| 19 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 20 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never been good at showing my feelings , but yes , I love you . |
| 22 | " Your letters were always too short , Sara , and not detailed enough , but then you 've never been good at spilling all your thoughts in speech or writing , have you ? |
| 23 | Get a divorce they , they 've never been happy at all since they 've been married have they ? |
| 24 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 25 | But immediately , the burden of the territorial and other material possessions of his church weighed upon him in a way that had never been evident at Bec under the relaxed rule of Duke Robert of Normandy . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , some European companies have long been successful at the world super-company level ( table 3 ) . |
| 27 | Ask if they have ever been frightened at school and what frightened or upset them . |
| 28 | He 's always been quick at picking another job up |
| 29 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 30 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |