Example sentences of "he be [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more . |
| 2 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 3 | Hughes readily admits to being something of a sexual tearaway but he is uncomfortable at the thought of superseding Michael Ignatieff as the thinking woman 's crumpet . |
| 4 | In the first one , he is content at the beginning , but then we begin to see , at the end of this part , that he is dissatisfied with his status , his loneliness and is cared by the criminal ‘ underworld ’ . |
| 5 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 6 | THE Conservative-controlled Stirling District has been told by the local MP , Michael Forsyth , that he is horrified at the way in which the council has handled a housing matter . |
| 7 | Ken Revell , chief technologist at BL Technology , says he is concerned at the time the government study has taken . |
| 8 | Another Tory MP , Henry Bellingham , Norfolk North West , has told Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern that he is concerned at the severity of the punishment . |
| 9 | He is aggrieved at the way this has been presented by the Scottish media , including The Scotsman . |
| 10 | Emanuel says he is surprised at the number of caterers who are unsure of the amount of cutlery to buy . |
| 11 | He 's disgusted at the way the workforce has been kept in the dark about its future . |
| 12 | Possible head injury , maybe whiplash — he 's unconscious at the moment . |
| 13 | I do n't think he 's good at the job at all . |
| 14 | Oh look , he 's good at the pot throwing though . |
| 15 | Erm that was a bad time er a critical time , they did n't know if he were gon na live or die then erm he 's had a number of transfusions to keep him alive but er he 's stable at the moment . |
| 16 | He 's delighted at the outcome . |
| 17 | He 's asleep at the moment , and I wo n't disturb him . ’ |
| 18 | He 's asleep at the moment , as quiet as a baby . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But , sadly , he 's ill at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | Linfield manager Trevor Anderson is confident that any appeal by Tbilisi will fail — and he 's surprised at the leniency of the original sentence . |
| 21 | I mean , one minute he 's foaming at the mouth and the next … laughing and joking . ’ |
| 22 | But he was friendly at the next GP and apologised . ’ |
| 23 | Speaking at a London conference , Tom Garvey , deputy director-general of the environment directorate , said he was disappointed at the lack of improvement in EC water quality in the past 20 years . |
| 24 | The Strathclyde Police spokesman , Supt Angus Kennedy , said he was disappointed at the comments attributed to spokesmen for other Scottish forces . |
| 25 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 26 | She thought her brain must be slowing up , because if he was certain at the start that she was who she said she was , why would he ring England ? |
| 27 | He was married at the moment , Finch not . |
| 28 | He was married at the time but he was nae . |
| 29 | As a board member of Essex Training and Enterprise Council he was pleased at the measures to help train the long term unemployed . |
| 30 | He was pleased at the news , though it must be reported not exactly knocked down with a feather . |