Example sentences of "he was [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 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 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 4 | He was scanning the smoky room , fidgeting a little nervously . |
| 5 | His voice seemed loaded with meaning but when Marcus looked at him he was scanning the board . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the time he had reached ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ he was experiencing a full erection . |
| 8 | He was experiencing a mixture of emotions . |
| 9 | Looking down at the dead man Wycliffe felt guilty because he was experiencing a sense of mild elation . |
| 10 | Already , at the age of nineteen , he was experiencing the morbidity which occasionally harassed him and which he described sixteen years later in a chapter on the ‘ character ’ of Keats : |
| 11 | He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood . |
| 12 | When Addison , one of the porters , was called up and posted to Flanders , he was digging a trench beside the road . |
| 13 | Dickon told his mother about it one evening as he was digging the cottage garden . |
| 14 | On leaving Oxford , he was secured the position of honorary attaché at the embassy in Tokyo in 1902 , but never allowed himself to become much interested in Far Eastern affairs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season was dealt a further blow last night when David Batty admitted he was facing a lengthy lay-off . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 23 | He was facing the man in the lit room with only thin wood and a lot of glass between them and the man was still moving , the blue-black automatic squat and ugly in his fist . |
| 24 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 25 | Then he was facing the Bridge . |
| 26 | He was facing the window and seemed to be in a state of dreamy somnolence . |
| 27 | He was facing the rajathuks . |
| 28 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 29 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
| 30 | He was peeling the bark off a stick . |