Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were aimed specifically at the race another time he would probably go very close . |
| 2 | But , my , if he were to come home at Aintree on Old Applejack how the tale would be told . |
| 3 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 4 | As he finished shaving he found he was grinning broadly at his reflection in the mirror ; in that jungle dawn he knew he was as happy as he had ever been in his life . |
| 5 | A : to give him and he was writing just at the beginning he was — writing the whole — for each year of his life he wrote something in that had — had been invented or + |
| 6 | He was looking closely at the picture in his hand . |
| 7 | He was looking straight at me , but still he did not say a word . |
| 8 | He was looking wistfully at the Princesse . |
| 9 | In the darkness he was looking sideways at me . |
| 10 | He was looking directly at Bridges , but Bridges looked imperturbably back , and after a few moments of heavy silence Kegan coughed and returned to the paper in his hand . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir , your wife is alive , ’ I dared to say , although he was looking aggressively at me , ‘ and if I lived with you like that , I 'd be your mistress . ’ |
| 12 | He was looking across at her . |
| 13 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 14 | He was looking across at her as she seated herself gingerly in the armchair opposite him . |
| 15 | Her hand lay gently on his shoulder , barely pressing against him , yet it seemed he was gathered there at the point of contact , his whole self focused in her touch . |
| 16 | He was speaking today at a Tory Reform Group fringe meeting in Bournemouth . |
| 17 | He was tugging anxiously at one earlobe , and the silence continued to hang between them , though Nunzia slapped and stirred at the range . |
| 18 | He was sent home at lunch-time . |
| 19 | Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma . |
| 20 | He was jailed yesterday at Chelmsford . |
| 21 | This week , two weeks after the operation , he was limping well at his home in West London . |
| 22 | He was lashing away at balls on the practice ground . |
| 23 | He was gazing judiciously at his finger nails with the air of a man content to leave the opening moves to his subordinate . |
| 24 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 25 | He was worshipped mainly at Thebes and at Athribis , his birthplace . |
| 26 | He was educated locally at the National School and later at Wesley College , Sheffield , before becoming apprenticed to a wool spinner , John Brigg . |
| 27 | When this school closed , he was educated privately at home . |
| 28 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |
| 29 | He was educated privately at a small school run by his father at Hardenhuish rectory , and latterly at Claverton Lodge School , Bath , run by his uncle Francis Kilvert [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | He was educated privately at academies in Margate . |