Example sentences of "very [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you did try and pick up , I think you realized that er you had n't done your ref er your referrals properly at the beginning and you actually came back to it erm at the end erm trying to pick up on where you left off and erm Martin was very non-committal at that point . |
| 2 | Angie was very loud at the time and being really crazy , so we all got on famously . |
| 3 | He glanced at me as Margaret went on , ‘ I feel very guilty at getting the poor child out of bed , as I know she 's specialling a D.I.L. and worried stiff in the process . |
| 4 | Moreover , the family may feel very guilty at having produced a handicapped child , over-anxious about the child 's future , worried about their feelings towards the child or the effect on other children in the family . |
| 5 | It was very strange at first to have the tight constriction of a waist a little below her bosom , and the softly flowing folds of muslin seemed extraordinarily light about her legs . |
| 6 | By the end of the 1970s there was substantially more conflict between central and local government than there had been before and , by the early 1980s , not only was Labour in control of almost every urban council — even when very weak at national level — but in some places the controlling Labour groups had swung dramatically to the left . |
| 7 | b ) The foal is very weak at birth and slow to get to its feet to get its first suck of colostrum . |
| 8 | Now inflation 's very low at the moment , but if inflation took off again and got into double figures , then not only would your pensions suffer , but your bills would go up as well . |
| 9 | The current situation in Horticultural Education , where over forty students are sharing two PCs , is unsatisfactory , but the demand for computer time is very uneven , peaking during the preparation of 3rd year dissertations , and being very low at other times . |
| 10 | The speculative demand for money is very low at this interest rate and equal to only £5 million . |
| 11 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 12 | ‘ Life can be very cruel at times . |
| 13 | Er I do n't think er erm difficulty of er amendments that would be made er in a couple of words here and there er the people very specific at what we are attempting to achieve problem with that . |
| 14 | Did n't seem to be very specific at all . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , we prefer to keep our relationship very private at this stage , ’ she answered the other nurse , sounding much less assured , now , to her own ears , and regretting that she had started this silly game . |
| 16 | And er of course , one felt a little more a little happier after sort of meeting someone you know because it 's quite and I was very shy at that at that time . |
| 17 | Léger appears to have joined the circle at Mercereau 's later in the same year , probably introduced by Delaunay with whom he was becoming very friendly at this period . |
| 18 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , they 're feeling very sore at the moment , ’ she added carefully . |
| 20 | DeFries was very upset at this because DeFries hated drugs . |
| 21 | Julies are notorious for getting very upset at any alteration to their environment , especially when breeding and they then proceed to kill each other . |
| 22 | Mildred was very upset at her exclusion from Hallowe'en for several reasons . |
| 23 | ‘ Our lads are very upset at what happened . |
| 24 | Mr Knight , who was a county councillor for Harwich for 12 years , said he was very upset at the latest snub but did not want to comment further until he had considered his next move . |
| 25 | ‘ I really am very upset at the moment , ’ Evelyn replied , taking her cue from Newman . |
| 26 | ‘ She was very upset at first , ’ Joe said . |
| 27 | I went down to the studio floor from the control room and Michael was very upset at having-to do it again . |
| 28 | Yeah but if you feel strongly about a particular issue , erm Elizabeth Peacock , during the er coal pits erm dispute when she was very very upset at what your You were planning to do , closing down all those coal mines and and she went public about it . |
| 29 | The decision to buy in or not is particularly relevant to personal computer sales where margins are tight , but Bearpark reckons that the company can remain competitive because it has huge purchasing power and can buy components at volume discounts — especially in Germany as the Deutsche Mark is very strong at the moment . |
| 30 | Er apart from that really there was nothing very strong at all . |