Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] at the [noun] " 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 may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 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 | One moment he was shouting at the boys in the dorm to keep quiet , the next thing he was in the bathroom retching , then out on the landing , heaving and crying out . |
| 6 | He was shouting at the dog . |
| 7 | He was protesting at the injustice of the world ; the word ‘ referendum ’ could be distinguished from a flood of complaint . |
| 8 | In truth , he also wanted to get married and could not afford to do so on the salary he was receiving at the Yorkshire Institution — one of the worst paid in the country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Harald did not speak , but he was looking at the girl , very carefully . |
| 16 | Flushing , Rachel looked at Damian , expecting to see mockery , but he was looking at the bay , his tough profile expressionless . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought he was looking at the station as if , to see if a train was in or something |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) . |
| 21 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 22 | He was looking at the scar that ran from her hip almost to her knee . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When she woke , he was looking at the fire and reading P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 25 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 26 | He was looking at the Thing rising out of the pit . |
| 27 | He was looking at the bin but she did n't know whether he had seen her or not . |
| 28 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 29 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 30 | He was looking at the label . |