Example sentences of "always been [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 2 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 3 | I 've always been hopeless at riddles . |
| 4 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 5 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 6 | I 've always been good at thinking on my feet . |
| 7 | He had always been good at keeping still . |
| 8 | She went to Canonmills School , then Broughton Higher grade , and had always been good at reading and spelling . |
| 9 | I 've always been good at saving . |
| 10 | I 've always been good at painting ; I 'd nearly finished my picture — which included the ark and a mountain when Miss began telling us how rainbows were all an illusion caused by sunlight and raindrops . |
| 11 | You 've always been good at that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The Danes have always been handy at blowing horns . |
| 13 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 14 | And the Germans have always been excellent at map-reading . |
| 15 | They point out that whereas merchants had always been welcome at royal courts as vendors of precious things , in the eighth century , and increasingly in the ninth and tenth centuries , kings embarked on more ambitious attempts to exploit systematically the resources of their realms . |
| 16 | He 's always been quick at picking another job up |