Example sentences of "at [pos pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 2 | I love to play Cardiff though , I 'm at my very best there . ’ |
| 3 | I want to be at my very best tonight . |
| 4 | At their most fully developed business information systems provide a formidable challenge to the creativity of archivists and historians alike . |
| 5 | Imagine how good it would feel to harness that power and use it when things are at their very best . |
| 6 | This is England at its most picturesque , at its most idyllically pastoral . |
| 7 | At its mathematically most basic , superposition is just the adding together of quantities of different sorts . |
| 8 | Ten Bel at its very best . |
| 9 | At its very best |
| 10 | She speaks of it as a tremendously rich and enlarging experience , ‘ Friendship expressed at its very best , I think ’ . |
| 11 | The notable Largo represents the ‘ Ensemble Pian & Forte ’ at its very best , the continuo theorbo adding to the tonal colour whilst the organ is silent . |
| 12 | It was at its very best in between shows of Re:Joyce. / Two-and-a-half hours on stage , alone , but for my mystical meditator Denis , followed by another two-and-a-half hours is not your average form of relaxation . |
| 13 | Traditional Irish music and song at its very best rolls down the curtain on the Festival folk music programme for another year . |
| 14 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 15 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 16 | Henry looked at her more closely , mistaking the dark rings round her eyes for signs of late nights and fast living . |
| 17 | Cy looked at her more closely . |
| 18 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's in there , ’ she said , and something so sad and so wistful entered her voice that Caspar , who was by no means insensitive , looked at her more intently . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh my ! ’ said Bob , looking at her more seriously than his voice would have suggested , ‘ you have changed your tune . |
| 21 | And even if ‘ Un sospiro ’ and the second of his two versions of ‘ La campanella ’ are slightly less distinguished , the three Hungarian Rhapsodies again show him at his most elegantly eloquent , as well as brilliant . |
| 22 | Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . |
| 23 | The Second Concerto , heard in Cortot 's own arrangement or refurbishment with some marginal re-texturing here and there , shows him at his most excitingly rhetorical . |
| 24 | Indeed I would place this alongside his two solo Schumann recordings , the 1972 Chopin Etudes , and the classic Stravinsky Three Movements /Prokoviev Seventh Sonata disc as representing this prodigiously gifted artist at his most consistently inspired . |
| 25 | And the details of Raskolnikov 's alienation show Dostoevsky at his most unrelentingly careful and sensitive . |
| 26 | The lectures , which were subsequently published as A Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ , represent Lewis at his very best . |
| 27 | Further forward , Clarke ensured that Wright 's return after injury was not to be a gentle reintroduction , and the England central defender had to be at his very best . |
| 28 | The bass aria ‘ Welt ade ’ , interspersed with a chorale by Johann Georg Albinus , is an outstanding composition and finds Peter Kooy at his very best . |
| 29 | It is in the three largest works on the recording that Demidenko is at his very best , with incredibly strong and deep sonorities at the end of the C major Toccato , Adagio and Fugue , providing an almost terrifying conclusion to this monumental work . |
| 30 | In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 . |