Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] at the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said the fact that he was leaving at the age of sixty should have no bearing on the choice of his successor . |
| 4 | He was shouting at the dog . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 7 | He was shouting at the storm , his voice choked and barely audible through the battering rain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 14 | He was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later released . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October . |
| 17 | He was protesting at the injustice of the world ; the word ‘ referendum ’ could be distinguished from a flood of complaint . |
| 18 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was asked at the Dec. 30 meeting to continue for the two months while new structures were elaborated . |
| 23 | He was met at the airport . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 28 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 29 | Then he saw that he was looking at the puzzled , desperate face of Ho Chan . |
| 30 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |