Example sentences of "[that] he [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would 've tied in again with , with the beginning because what is affordable erm would he get the benefits that he was wanting at the end of it . |
| 2 | He said the fact that he was leaving at the age of sixty should have no bearing on the choice of his successor . |
| 3 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |
| 4 | Then he saw that he was looking at the puzzled , desperate face of Ho Chan . |
| 5 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 6 | The whole of the way through that he was looking at the person he was trying to im not staring at them , but good eye contact , so if you 're trying to influence somebody there 's no point in looking somewhere else . |
| 7 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 8 | Foreign Affairs Minister Raffi Hovhannesyan announced on Oct. 16 that he was resigning at the request of President Levon Ter-Petrosyan over " apparent policy disagreement " . |
| 9 | She glanced at Caspar and saw that he was staring at the silver door . |
| 10 | On entering the dining room , Hope had manoeuvred himself next to Miss D'Arcy and given her to understand that he was overwhelmed at the self-control of her behaviour in the face of such insensitivity as that displayed by the over-enthusiastic Mrs Crump who , nevertheless and for the sake of harmony , had to be tolerated — if not forgiven . |
| 11 | I was really impressed with that when he told a handful of us after the British Grand Prix that he was retiring at the end of the season . |