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She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.
He reached out to take the hourglass, grazing her skin in the act.
Curses, caught in the act.
Hastings was named in the act as governor-general for a term of five years.
In this picture three men are represented as having played a bowl, while the fourth is in the act of delivering his bowl.
The bowler delivers his bowl with one foot on a mat or footer, made of india-rubber or cocoanut fibre, the size of which is also prescribed by rule as 24 by 16 in., though, with a view to protecting the green, Australasian clubs employ a much larger size, and require the bowler to keep both feet on the mat in the act of delivery.