Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a miracle that I was alive at all . |
| 2 | I was nervous at first . |
| 3 | I was disappointed at this and was afraid she was still vexed at me for bringing Frankie . |
| 4 | I was present at 56 ships going to the bottom — and one German sub . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was clever at that . |
| 7 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was dubious at first because since her illness Jennifer has become a very private person and I do n't think she would have liked all the hubbub over in the other section ; but here — ’ she glanced round at the softly decorated walls , the strategically placed water-colours and the subdued lighting ‘ — here , I think , could well be the answer . ’ |
| 12 | But if you open that , you 'll see why I was unhappy at first . ’ |
| 13 | I was good at that at school . " |
| 14 | But I could set up this magazine , I was good at that sort of thing . |
| 15 | I was good at English history , sport |
| 16 | It was very embarrassing and I was shocked at this behaviour from a person I had thought of as kind of shy and introverted . ’ |
| 17 | I was furious at this . |
| 18 | I was puzzled at first but now I know why they do it , why they stretch their throats like that . |
| 19 | The only other Hurricane of which I was aware at this time was flown by Hamish Hamilton , which was ahead and to my left . |
| 20 | I was worried at first , when Irene started crying again before we had even taken our seats . |
| 21 | I was surprised at first that Jean-Claude bathed so infrequently . |
| 22 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 23 | I was surprised at this . |
| 24 | I was surprised at this and wondered again if they were short of money . |
| 25 | I used to take it personally , and I was wretched at first . |
| 26 | Needless to say I was staggered at this result . |
| 27 | I tell you what I nearly wa , I nearly did end up like he did , I was frightened at one time ! |
| 28 | ( 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 ! ’ ) |
| 29 | I was useless at this job … . ’ |
| 30 | I was horrified at 15 . |