Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid you have n't caught us at our best . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you 've seen me at my worst . ’ |
| 6 | c I think I she 'd seen me at my worst on Friday |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've seen it at its best , ’ Harriet answered , wishing the girl did not sound so patronising . |
| 10 | So I suppose one could say that you 've seen us at our worst , and anything else can only be an improvement . ’ |
| 11 | The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression . |
| 12 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 13 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 14 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |
| 15 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 16 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 17 | It would , he had informed her at their first meeting , be mostly a matter of watching and listening for the moment . |