capture in the act

The figures are often captured in the act of metamorphosing.

"These two were captured in the act of committing sabotage against essential industries.

The fact is that a U.S. agent has been captured in the act of conspiring against a friendly neighboring government.

"You and your crew were captured in the act of piracy by the Royal Manticoran Navy," she went on after a moment.

Because Trent had brought in pirates captured in the act of piracy, and they had threatened retaliation from their fellow-freebooters and this message might be another threat.

Reading "An Hour in Paradise" is like watching a procession of modern-day Jewish pilgrims in a medieval tapestry: seekers captured in the act of seeking.

"You're going to show a man dying in agony on an operating table- captured in the act of realizing that everything which brought him back to life is guaranteed to kill him?"

These seven men-" he gestured slightly at the hired thugs, "-were captured in the act of attempted murder of one of Valdemar's Heraldic Trainees; this boy, Lavan Chitward, called Firestarter."

The worst that could happen to them (officially, at least) was incarceration along with other prisoners of war, unless they had been so careless as to be captured in the act of murdering, torturing, raping, or otherwise treating the crews of their prizes in traditional piratical fashion.