Example sentences of "he was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he had reached ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ he was experiencing a full erection . |
| 2 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |
| 3 | At the end of the hallway he turned a corner and saw that he was facing a dead end , doorless apart from a fire exit , the walls dappled with scabs of paint and sick yellow neon light . |
| 4 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season was dealt a further blow last night when David Batty admitted he was facing a lengthy lay-off . |
| 5 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 6 | The old man 's surprisingly bright grey eyes held him and Hope knew that he was facing an honest man and felt bucked that his own present character was worthy of it . |
| 7 | Despite the joy she had out of being with him on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , she for one thought that he was wasting a great deal of his time . |
| 8 | Five minutes before kick-off , Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton went down in agony with a slipped disc and Hoult was ordered from the stand , where he was eating a hot dog . |
| 9 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 10 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 11 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 12 | " He was packing a small case . " |
| 13 | Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices . |
| 14 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |
| 15 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 16 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 17 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 18 | While he was casting a regretful backward glance to the ‘ dear Cot ’ at Clevedon , the familiar towers and spires of Bristol already loomed invitingly . |
| 19 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 20 | He was stuffing a thick wad of notes into his inside jacket pocket as he did so and I wondered briefly why Stubbly wanted all those French francs ; but then , that was n't any of my business , was it ? |
| 21 | Leith knew he was bleeding a little inside , but she also knew there was n't a thing she could say or do to help . |
| 22 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |
| 23 | Like the latter two , he was to die a violent death , but that was not in the mind of his flatterers at that time . |
| 24 | And in March 1958 he travelled with his wife to Rome where he was to receive an honorary degree : it is a mark of his extraordinary fame that students lined the route to the university and shouted " Viva Eliot ! " as they drove by . |
| 25 | The answer is that he was wreaking a horrible revenge for having had his box of leads confiscated that morning , on suspicion that he was attending a job interview . |
| 26 | On April 18 , before leaving on official visits to European capitals , de Klerk announced that he was calling an all-party " peace summit " of political , community , church and business leaders on May 24 and 25 to seek an end to township violence . |
| 27 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 28 | He was swinging a short sword back and forth idly , and stared out across the tree tops with the air of one carrying out a tedious and unglamorous assignment . |
| 29 | One day when he was extremely unrealistic and euphoric , I really became upset ; it was like going in to see a stranger — he was receiving a high dosage of morphine at that time — and I called his pulmonary doctor and requested that something be done or an explanation be given . |
| 30 | They drew near the trees and Corbett felt he was entering a different world . |