Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar .
2 He said the fact that he was leaving at the age of sixty should have no bearing on the choice of his successor .
3 He was shouting at the storm , his voice choked and barely audible through the battering rain .
4 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 .
5 He was shouting at the dog .
6 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 .
7 He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% .
8 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 .
9 Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week .
10 Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October .
11 He was protesting at the injustice of the world ; the word ‘ referendum ’ could be distinguished from a flood of complaint .
12 He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter .
13 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 .
14 He was met at the airport .
15 In an attempt to out-Flynn Errol Flynn , he was seen at a party drunkenly trying to make love to one young girl after another .
16 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 .
17 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 " .
18 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 .
19 Last week employment secretary Michael Howard announced he was looking at a range of measures to boost tourism in Britain currently worth £25bn a year .
20 Athelstan felt he was looking at a man already under the shadow of Death 's soft , black wing .
21 Now he was looking at a building , possibly a house .
22 Maybe he was looking at a book that told you things like that .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Harald did not speak , but he was looking at the girl , very carefully .
26 Flushing , Rachel looked at Damian , expecting to see mockery , but he was looking at the bay , his tough profile expressionless .
27 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 .
28 I thought he was looking at the station as if , to see if a train was in or something
29 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 .
30 He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it .
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