Example sentences of "he was [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the fact that he was leaving at the age of sixty should have no bearing on the choice of his successor . |
| 2 | He was shouting at the storm , his voice choked and barely audible through the battering rain . |
| 3 | He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable . |
| 4 | He was shouting at the dog . |
| 5 | In January 1985 , before he was supplanted at the top by Lendl , the New Yorker defeated the stern Czechoslovak in straight sets in the Masters final . |
| 6 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 7 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 8 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 9 | Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October . |
| 10 | He was protesting at the injustice of the world ; the word ‘ referendum ’ could be distinguished from a flood of complaint . |
| 11 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 12 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |
| 13 | He was met at the airport . |
| 14 | But that would 've tied in again with , with the beginning because what is affordable erm would he get the benefits that he was wanting at the end of it . |
| 15 | Foreign Affairs Minister Raffi Hovhannesyan announced on Oct. 16 that he was resigning at the request of President Levon Ter-Petrosyan over " apparent policy disagreement " . |
| 16 | The many underground railway schemes on which he was engaged at the time of his death had to be completed by others , but the Greathead shield is his lasting memorial . |
| 17 | And then his mind cleared , and he was looking at the Robemaker and feeling contempt for him again , feeling as well , the dangerous , powerful white spears of the Stroicim Inchinn withdraw , so that he knew the Robemaker had again called up the Stroicim without giving any outward indication of having done so . |
| 18 | The whole of the way through that he was looking at the person he was trying to im not staring at them , but good eye contact , so if you 're trying to influence somebody there 's no point in looking somewhere else . |
| 19 | Harald did not speak , but he was looking at the girl , very carefully . |
| 20 | Flushing , Rachel looked at Damian , expecting to see mockery , but he was looking at the bay , his tough profile expressionless . |
| 21 | I came out of church one day , to do some visiting , from the over sixties , and there was a boy with a a great chunk of rock in his hand , and he was looking at the window . |
| 22 | I thought he was looking at the station as if , to see if a train was in or something |
| 23 | He was looking at the man , screaming without being heard , blood coming from between his fingers , when Paul himself was attacked by something thin and cold and slippery that whipped round his neck and stayed there , tugging , as if it wanted to pull his head off . |
| 24 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 25 | He was looking at the scar that ran from her hip almost to her knee . |
| 26 | Ruth knew he was looking at the glint of Caer Wydyr , which even at this range was difficult to focus on ; like something seen in the corner of the eye , it seemed to disappear when you turned to look . |
| 27 | When she woke , he was looking at the fire and reading P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 28 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 29 | He was looking at the Thing rising out of the pit . |
| 30 | He was looking at the bin but she did n't know whether he had seen her or not . |