Example sentences of "he be [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knighton declined to comment ahead of the talks with Edwards , but it seems he is keen at all costs to avoid a court case . |
| 2 | ‘ How can you leave out Gower by saying he is old at 35 and yet include John Embury , who is 40 ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He is dreadful at day-to-day organisation , ’ Bloch says . |
| 4 | Yeah , he 's quite useful , he 's good at that sort of thing erm |
| 5 | The ‘ little girl ’ there can gather it in : he 's good at that . ’ |
| 6 | But he 's brilliant at old ladies , bright old ladies with shining eyes . ’ |
| 7 | Not that Tony is either but he 's handy at sticking daggers in your back and that 's better than nothing . |
| 8 | He was right at that time because he was , shall we say , " in season " , an exceptional pilot . |
| 9 | Though loath to admit it , he was relieved at first to be back , among the familiar sights and sounds . |
| 10 | Although C. has no recollection of the fact , Ward J. found that he was present at some time when Miss T. was expressing her wish not to have a blood transfusion . |
| 11 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 12 | He was good at that . |
| 13 | He was good at that . |
| 14 | He was good at that , she thought , her dislike for him intensifying . |
| 15 | He was careful at first but he soon started to leap about and dash off in all directions . |
| 16 | Silent and solitary he often was , as Eckert knew from the evidence of Margaret Townsend , Thomas 's aunt , but he was eager at all times to share his country knowledge with young people . |
| 17 | The annual conference of Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish republican movement , was held in Dublin on Feb. 3-4 , 1990 , during which Gerry Adams , the party president , said that he was ready at any time to discuss the conditions within which peace and justice could be created . |
| 18 | He was inept at first , but the strong urge would not be deflected ; by the end he was filling her , jerking the skins on which they lay . |
| 19 | He said he was surprised at all the things that |
| 20 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 21 | He was excellent at charming wardrobe ladies , new young chorus members straight from music school , and surly , battered old musicians in the orchestra pit who had seen it all before . |
| 22 | He was puzzled at first ; his skin was generally clear , without rashes . |
| 23 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 24 | Southey wrote long afterwards that he was astonished at this turn of events , since Coleridge , such a short time before , had talked of being ‘ deeply in love with a certain Mary Evans ’ ; Coleridge , on the other hand , was later to blame Southey for having persuaded him into marriage against his will . |