Example sentences of "[conj] he was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lear was now working mostly from the menagerie at Knowsley Hall , where he was enjoying the congenial nature of Lord Derby 's patronage , and entertaining the Lord 's grandchildren . |
| 2 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |
| 3 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
| 4 | His target , when he should be considered fit and ready , was the European centre of SIS operations , a house in The Hague disguised as the ‘ Continental Trading Corporation ’ , where he was to join the staff of agents run by Major H. R. Stevens and his deputy , Captain S. Payne Best . |
| 5 | Dos Santos on Oct. 10 cancelled a visit to the USA , where he was to attend the UN General Assembly , having failed to obtain high-level meetings with US politicians , and in protest at " hostile US policy " towards his government ( which remained unrecognized by the USA ) . |
| 6 | Amenhotep , who had been found with a garland of flowers still round his neck , went by train , first class sleeper , where he was given the top bunk . |
| 7 | The sergeant-major fought on the Somme , where he was awarded the Military Medal , so he knows exactly what you can expect when we eventually end up in France and have to face the enemy . |
| 8 | At this , Dad lost his temper — either the bird was brought round straight away or he was calling the police . |
| 9 | The obscuring by detail of some of his more fundamental and original conclusions may have resulted in formal recognition of his contributions coming rather late in his life , although he was awarded the Murchison medal of the Geological Society in 1906 and was president of the Geological Society of Edinburgh from 1908 to 1910 . |
| 10 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 11 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 12 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 13 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 14 | ‘ He admitted in the end that he was suggesting the break for my sake , and I told him how I felt about that . |
| 15 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 16 | Anyway , one day he shouted to her that he was taking the bike out , she was in another room doing something , and minutes later he was dead . |
| 17 | He raised his arm and a man came from the buildings at the side of the field , and it was soon apparent that he was taking the car away . |
| 18 | In a direct challenge to a December 1990 vote by the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) to retain the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] , the veteran opposition leader Oginga Odinga announced on Feb. 13 that he was forming the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) . |
| 19 | Baker said that he was referring the case after new examination of the forensic evidence given at Ward 's trial by government scientists , who were also involved in the cases of the Guildford Four , the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six . |
| 20 | Thus the philosopher René Descartes ( 1596–1650 ) insisted that he was discovering the ‘ laws that God has put into nature . ’ |
| 21 | In the desert , as his wartime despatches show , he was entranced by the conviction that he was controlling the Arabs without their even realizing it ; in his self-imposed obscurity after the war he busied himself secretly , though not too secretly , with pulling strings . |
| 22 | The same chap also revealed that he was given the nickname Colonel because he was so self-important . ’ |
| 23 | The fact was that he was enjoying the experience . |
| 24 | Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage . |
| 25 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 26 | He walked and walked , in fair and foul weather , pretending that he was training the young hounds to stay at heel ; and did so . |
| 27 | He went to ground and was n't heard of again until 1975 when word reached the CIA that he was training the Marxist MPLA soldiers in Angola . |
| 28 | I believe that he was misleading the House and the country by those assertions , because the burden of the case of those of us who think that the Bill is completely irrelevant to the problems of our prisons which it purports to tackle is that the penalties already exist in the Public Order Act 1986 , for which the Government can legitimately take credit . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 30 | De Klerk 's predecessor as State President and leader of the NP , P. W. Botha [ for whose resignation from these posts in 1989 see pp. 36453 , 36837 ] , made known on May 6 that he was leaving the National Party and accused de Klerk of taking " the path of abdication " . |