Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motorwagons were full of smiling , unreadable pilgrims in black , presumably joyous at being so close to their destination , Salt Lake City . |
| 2 | Mike Joyce was incredibly upset at being ignored in the Nick Kent article . |
| 3 | It is hard to picture this woman as a gawky teenager , arriving in a new town , terribly self-conscious at being a new student . |
| 4 | It 's not that he 's unfriendly or awkward or rude , merely uncomfortable at being in the spotlight without a character to hide behind . |
| 5 | I 'm not less horrified at being with him . |
| 6 | The epitome of Nineties value rather than volume has become just that , after having been not terribly good at being the Eighties thrusting stereotype — though not for want of trying . |
| 7 | Diana needs people ; unlike the Prince , she is not much good at being on her own . |
| 8 | ‘ I got so angry at being accused of something I had n't done that I made it happen . ’ |
| 9 | He felt suddenly happy at being alive . |
| 10 | Amiss was so amazed at being urged to drink by Pooley that he obeyed orders and then repaired to the spare bedroom . |
| 11 | God I 'm so excited at being able to come to study and |
| 12 | Happily , the Department of the Environment was so appalled at being cast as the number one villain that the certificates came almost by return of post and the Coal Board now felt isolated and exposed . |
| 13 | Faldo summed it up : ‘ I was not afraid at being caught by Greg . |
| 14 | Not best pleased at being awakened from my reveries , I shrugged impatiently . |
| 15 | His hobgoblins can cause a lot of disruption , and simple ordinary people are remarkably good at being bad . ’ |
| 16 | Dejan Savicevic , their Yugoslav midfielder , is understandably distressed at being forced to watch from the stand . |
| 17 | Slightly expensive at in n it . |
| 18 | They 're really good at are n't they ? |
| 19 | As he says , ‘ Keith 's really good at being able to know where to focus in . |
| 20 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 21 | But what he was really good at was machines . |
| 22 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 23 | She was simply embarrassed at being revealed to the public . |
| 24 | He was n't good at being specific ; he shook his head as if to say there were so many problems he did n't know where to begin . |
| 25 | She was n't good at being silly , but she gave herself over to the moment . |
| 26 | Mrs Porter was not particularly pleased at being interrupted by such an errand . |
| 27 | Feeling a little dizzy at being caught in the whirlwind of Faye 's enthusiasm , and wondering if she was just imagining a slightly brittle , overwrought quality to it this morning , Belinda listened to several more of Faye 's ideas for ‘ Getting Tom to notice you as a woman ’ . |
| 28 | And we 're quite good at being sarcastic . |
| 29 | What I do appear to be quite successful at is raising money for charity . |
| 30 | Leopold and Nannerl were clearly quite distraught at being parted from Mozart and his mother : ‘ … that sad day which I never thought I should have to face … ’ wrote Leopold ( 25 September 1777 ) . |