Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what really did for him was losing a lot of money at Keyser Ullmann in the property crash of 1973 . |
| 2 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 3 | By the time he had reached ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ he was experiencing a full erection . |
| 4 | He was experiencing a mixture of emotions . |
| 5 | Looking down at the dead man Wycliffe felt guilty because he was experiencing a sense of mild elation . |
| 6 | When Addison , one of the porters , was called up and posted to Flanders , he was digging a trench beside the road . |
| 7 | An admirer of Origen , Eusebius probably thought he was facing a repetition of the situation of eighty years previously when a learned theologian harassed by a bishop of Alexandria needed support from his church . |
| 8 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season was dealt a further blow last night when David Batty admitted he was facing a lengthy lay-off . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 12 | Now he was issuing a writ which alleged that Virgin had made ‘ fraudulent use of a dominant position ’ in their dealings with him , and claimed damages and a reversion of all his songwriting copyrights . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was eating a mess of pottage and taking deep gulps of wine from a large ornamental cup . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was eating a bacon sandwich and hurled the crusts into the gutter as the car drove off . |
| 17 | After the opening page , he noticed that he had retained nothing of what followed and that he was eating a potato crisp . |
| 18 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 19 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was sporting a Clark Gable moustache and being terribly brave about it all . |
| 22 | She heard his uncertain footsteps on the stairs and he was humming a hornpipe under his breath . |
| 23 | " He was packing a small case . " |
| 24 | ‘ Now it is they who are trying to manipulate us , ’ one reformist said in disgust as he was leaving a caucus meeting . |
| 25 | Four weeks later a security officer was attacked as he was leaving a betting shop in Scotland Road with £2,000 . |
| 26 | He was strumming a few chords now , one foot up on a stool , and the silence in the little bar was complete . |
| 27 | At the farm I met Pat from Brigade H.Q He was delivering a message to the C.O. of 6 Commando . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was expounding a Sura , one of the parable-like stories of the Koran , extracting from it lessons for the faithful . |
| 30 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |