Example sentences of "he was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was scanning the smoky room , fidgeting a little nervously . |
| 2 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 3 | He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood . |
| 4 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 5 | He was tormenting the thin man . |
| 6 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 7 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |
| 8 | Chaca had even spray painted his tag ‘ Chaca ’ on the inside of the lift as he was leaving the criminal court building after being convicted of defacing public property . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 11 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 12 | He was accompanying the chief executive of BP Exploration , John Browne , on a trip to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan where BP and Statoil are discussing offshore developments in the South Caspian Sea with the Azeri government . |
| 13 | Until he was contacted the arriving forces had no idea of what to expect . |
| 14 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 15 | Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers , he was to do the same to the unbelieving world . |
| 16 | He realized that he was supporting the weaker side , and was against the transfer of power to ‘ mere financiers and political economists ’ . |
| 17 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 18 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 19 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 20 | He was watching the circling helicopters . |
| 21 | THE Michael Knighton Story , already sold to a tabloid , began publicly as recently as 18 August when it became known that he was buying the controlling interest in Manchester United from Martin Edwards . |
| 22 | He was to receive the necessary flying instruction from a microlight instructor . |
| 23 | He was eyeing the young woman as if she were a — well , a confectionery shop . |
| 24 | He was breaking the French stick , his eyes roving dispassionately over her scantily clad body , and she felt herself blush . |
| 25 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 26 | And the greater the gap between his colossal global success and the terraced cottages of South Wales , the more determined he was to employ the grappling irons of loyalty and haul his past alongside . |
| 27 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 28 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 29 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 30 | In late July and early August , he was assigned the sombre task of accompanying the body of Gerda Taro in its journey back to France . |