Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 2 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 3 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings . |
| 5 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 6 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 7 | Blood lead concentrations had been highest at age two , but had now fallen by over 40% . |
| 8 | Although he had been late at Emma Chisholm 's dinner party last week , he had seemed perfectly sober , but you could never tell with alcoholics . |
| 9 | She had been good at art at school and , had the war not come , she might have tried to make a career out of it . |
| 10 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 11 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 12 | The previous game had been 1–1 at Ewok Park and ST had earned a replay at their ground , the director 's granny 's back garden . |
| 13 | It was better that way , she supposed , though if things had been normal at home Rob could have phoned her there . |
| 14 | He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again . |
| 15 | The sections had been hard at work since 0600 hours , and they had been very successful at keeping all the teams on the road . |
| 16 | In all available time not devoted to teaching , to domestic life or to friendship , Lewis had been hard at work , ever since the late 1920s , on the book which was to become The Allegory of Love . |
| 17 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 18 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 19 | I had been happy at Magdalen and this was a moving occasion . |
| 20 | Sarah had been surprised at Mrs Fitzgerald 's calmness but Anne told her that her mother and Maureen spent every possible moment in church and it seemed to comfort them . |
| 21 | He had been surprised at Sam 's willingness to stay , and had even felt a flicker of jealousy when he had flopped contentedly down in the grass beside the boy 's feet . |
| 22 | He had been unopposed at Bewdley , but his two principal colleagues , the Chamberlain brothers , found their majorities uncomfortably reduced , Neville 's to the very edge of defeat . |