Example sentences of "[verb] always been good [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 3 | I 've always been good at thinking on my feet . |
| 4 | I 've always been good at saving . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You 've always been good at that . ’ |
| 7 | Even then , at twenty , she was beginning to look matronly , and of course be had always been good with animals . |
| 8 | He had always been good at keeping still . |
| 9 | She went to Canonmills School , then Broughton Higher grade , and had always been good at reading and spelling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | New Zealand have always been good in this department and that is why we are going there ’ , explained coach Lin . |