Example sentences of "he was [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 2 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 3 | Only three weeks ago Clough launched a scathing attack on the way he was treated at the European championship finals in Sweden this summer and voiced his disapproval at manager Taylor 's long-ball style . |
| 4 | He was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later released . |
| 5 | Paul , 21 , broke down in tears when he was asked at the Old Bailey if he intended to kill or seriously injure Oxford graduate John Lavender . |
| 6 | He was looking at the two Apaches . |
| 7 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |
| 8 | Then he saw that he was looking at the puzzled , desperate face of Ho Chan . |
| 9 | He was speaking at the new driving standards agency in Nottingham . |
| 10 | He was speaking at the official launch of KPMG 's new Gatwick base — the latest location in the firm 's regional network of offices throughout the south-east counties of Surrey , Sussex and Kent . |
| 11 | He was speaking at the official launch of ‘ BackUp ’ , a befriending scheme designed to help Wirral children and young people going through difficult periods in their lives , yesterday afternoon . |
| 12 | He was screaming at the two men , trying to frighten them . |
| 13 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |
| 14 | Meantime , he was employed at the local grocery store as a delivery boy delivering groceries to the local customers on his bike . |
| 15 | He was elected at the first count , Ruari Quinn at the fifteenth . |
| 16 | He was goggling at the First Spiritualists like a medieval alchemist who has just raised the Devil . |
| 17 | He was educated at the Marischal College of Aberdeen and a private school in Chelsea , and from 1831 till 1835 he attended classes at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 18 | He was educated at the private school for the deaf at Rugby , and then by private tutors — all entirely by sign language and fingerspelling , as was his sister . |
| 19 | From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies . |
| 20 | He was educated at the Royal Grammar School , Lancaster . |
| 21 | He was educated at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester ( 1883–5 ) , graduating with honours in drawing and science . |
| 22 | He was educated at the Royal School , Armagh , and graduated from the Royal University of Ireland in 1884 and from Trinity College , Dublin , in 1885 . |
| 23 | He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution , Belfast . |
| 24 | He was educated at the Royal Liberty School , Romford , and , after a brief sojourn in banking , at Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he won cricket blues in 1931 , 1932 , and 1933 . |
| 25 | He was educated at the Royal Belfast Institution and then at Queen 's University , Belfast , studying science in his first year then switching to philosophy . |
| 26 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 27 | He was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers ' School , Pinner , Middlesex , and then , as a foundation scholar , at King Edward 's School , Birmingham ( 1896–8 ) . |
| 28 | Born in February 1924 , he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the University of London , where he studied law . |
| 29 | The son of a post office worker in Edinburgh , he was educated at the Royal High School and at Edinburgh and London Universities . |
| 30 | He was educated at the Pestalozzian Institute , Worksop , after which , in 1850 , his father sent him to study chemistry under his close friend Justus von Liebig , at the University of Giessen , in Hesse-Darmstadt . |