Sentence examples for on being confronted from inspiring English sources

On being confronted, Gilbert produced the coins, one of which had been marked so that it could be identified.

On being confronted the teenager claimed the whole thing was fiction.

A local constable went to assess the situation, but on being confronted with a huge bear he took fright and ran to fetch the menagerie owner.

On being confronted with the observations of his critics, he scarcely looked up from a pile of balance sheets that he was poring over.

Who else, on being confronted with the fact that the bailed-out mortgage giant Freddie Mac had been paying him three hundred thousand dollars a year for what appeared to be very little work, would have claimed they were paying him for his expertise as a historian?

The producers of that show have taken the same approach with David Bowie: Verbatim (Saturday, 8pm, Radio 4), featuring some of the most memorable interviews with the man who couldn't resist giving a reporter a good headline, and often made a habit of blurting out the first thing that came into his head on being confronted by the awed interviewer and their expectant recorder.

As one goes through the uncollected and unpublished poems, one is confronted on every other page with first-rate work.

However, when comparing results of the two methods based on published data one is confronted with several problems.

What I found terrifying early on was being confronted by my own nakedness.

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake was recently caught on camera being confronted in a U.S. Senate elevator by women who wanted to talk to him about sexual assault and Brett Kavanaugh.

But in light of his frequent role as corporate governance guru, he said, "it makes it legitimate to focus on the anomaly of someone who has been very active speaking on ethical issues being confronted on this issue".