Example sentences of "[verb] at [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a tall , awkward-looking girl overwhelmed at being close to someone who had long been her idol . |
| 2 | ‘ Actually , what you 're looking at is creative disorder , ’ Frank protested lazily . |
| 3 | What I was looking at was identical with the " White Cliffs of Dover " in England and the rolling plateau of Picardy in France , the quarries of southern Sweden and the cliffs of eastern Denmark . |
| 4 | It is really worth saying to all who are married or who will be one day , and particularly to those who are maintaining painful relationships , you must work at being generous to your partner . |
| 5 | What we 're now going to look at is living assurance . |
| 6 | And it 's more than er , and you can certainly do a better job than the Carlton so I mean , you do n't call , I mean , you do n't call him any competition at all I do n't but , you 've got to look at being able to do functions for two hundred . |
| 7 | I 'm going to look at being funny . |
| 8 | She laughed , partly amused at his fascination with the woman and partly relieved at being able to delay her decision . |
| 9 | That left her free to play at being married which consisted of getting herself done up to the nines and visiting her friends all day , now and again taking the baby , all nice and clean , out in her pram . |
| 10 | I liked to play at being bright . |
| 11 | She jumped up in a panic , terrified at being late home . |
| 12 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 13 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 14 | The first house Jane looked at was moated and she was shown over by an ex-policeman who seemed happy to be working for an estate agent . |
| 15 | Her voice sounded scratchy ; he wanted to laugh at her but did n't , She was getting annoyed , embarrassed at being stuck out of the window , making conversation while she secretly strained , trying to heave the trapping window back up . |
| 16 | They can play at being still waters that run deep . |
| 17 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 18 | It might be that a friend says to the young man who is thinking of living in Bali ‘ You do n't really believe that nonsense , you 're playing at being Gauguin' . |
| 19 | Massless electron neutrinos playing at being heavy tau neutrinos might help solve either or both . |
| 20 | ‘ N-no — of course not , ’ she lied , irritated at being unable to keep the tremor from her voice . |
| 21 | And it would have to be if those societies seriously aimed at being democratic . |
| 22 | These show that the mischief aimed at was twofold . |
| 23 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |
| 24 | The table they sat at was wrought iron , with a bright brass guard-rail running round the top of it , more of a danger to glasses than anything else . |