Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] at his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was discovered by his father , who at first did n't realise he was looking at his own son . |
| 2 | And he was looking at his own face . |
| 3 | He was tugging at his lower lip and walking slowly round Gabriel . |
| 4 | In 1953 he was placed at his own request on the Academy 's retired list . |
| 5 | He was buried at his own request , in Glasgow . |