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