Example sentences of "he be at [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 2 | Alexandra took her father over every inch of her domain and he nodded at her enthusiasm , but if he was at all impressed by what she did , what she planned , he gave no sign . |
| 3 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 4 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 5 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 6 | It was just the way he was at that particular time . |
| 7 | He was at that hero-worshipping age . |
| 8 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |