Example sentences of "he was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Shortly after he spoke , the first of what could become a flood of disgruntled clergy announced he was leaving the Church of England . |
| 32 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 35 | As he was leaving the room , Holmes said : ‘ One more question , Dr Mortimer . |
| 36 | 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 " . |
| 37 | Gorbachev 's success at the congress was marred , however , by Yelstin 's announcement that he was leaving the party , and by the departure from the party around the same time of a number of other leading advocates of radical reform [ see p. 37416-17 ] . |
| 38 | 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 ) . |
| 39 | SPEAKING of his decision to step down as chairman , Sir Christopher told delegates that he was leaving the company in good hands . |
| 40 | As he was leaving the office he stopped by another door . |
| 41 | As he was leaving the courtroom he collapsed . |
| 42 | In the desert , as his wartime despatches show , he was entranced by the conviction that he was controlling the Arabs without their even realizing it ; in his self-imposed obscurity after the war he busied himself secretly , though not too secretly , with pulling strings . |
| 43 | He made the goals and rang like mad … but I did n't think he was controlling the game as I 've heard implied . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | ‘ He was accompanying the swimmers . |
| 47 | There he was to search the Scriptures and the writings of the early Fathers and write a book which would be distributed to the universities and would enable them to give their advice as to whether the Pope had authority to enable a man to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 48 | Until he was contacted the arriving forces had no idea of what to expect . |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 50 | He claimed that he was avenging the killing of 17 Arabs in October 1990 on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem [ see pp. 37759-60 ] . |
| 51 | At the same time he was urging the Americans to negotiate . |
| 52 | Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers , he was to do the same to the unbelieving world . |
| 53 | He was adjusting the sail ropes and pulling the tiller back into position . |
| 54 | Watching him , Lindsey could have sworn she saw a sudden brightness in his eyes before he was handing the infant over . |
| 55 | He realized that he was supporting the weaker side , and was against the transfer of power to ‘ mere financiers and political economists ’ . |
| 56 | In so doing he was supporting the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky ( 1895–1979 ) , one of the earliest of the modern breed of pseudo scientists . |
| 57 | Dr Duncan Macmillan said he was supporting the university 's proposals to sell either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael , because of a desperate need to raise money for the care of the remainder of the collection . |
| 58 | 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 . ’ |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |