Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 2 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 3 | Cos I remember you saying on the X T that the delete key would n't work . |
| 4 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 5 | Again as if she read my thoughts , she said : " After I heard you talking on the phone , I nipped out and bought this — you can pay me back , if you like , Mother 's ruin . |
| 6 | ‘ Did I hear you talking on the phone last night ? ’ my father said . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw them spooning on the beach , ’ she added , rather wistfully . |
| 8 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 9 | It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this . |
| 10 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 11 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 12 | She recollected it falling on the face and sightless seeing eyes of Michael , the first of the Scarabae household she had ever beheld . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr. Preston , if I may say so that was pretty cold blooded of you to leave her lying on the floor until I came in . ’ |
| 14 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 15 | When the crunch came , she left him standing on the dance floor . |
| 16 | And when you see them racing on the television ! |
| 17 | The only time that you will hear about it is whe , if you have the television on and you see it happening on the parliament and on your papers . |
| 18 | Erm how 'd you find it living on the money get on Social Security ? |
| 19 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 20 | They left her bleeding on the ground and threatened to carry out further attacks if she went to the police . ’ |
| 21 | When they see us paddling on the river , they stare at us open-mouthed , as if we are completely insane . |
| 22 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 23 | Then he saw them lying on the ground , but not complete clubs , just the heads with their covers on , protruding from a detachable section that could be removed to expose the empty cylinder of the golf-bag . |
| 24 | Dulé passed them and remembered how he had only felt wonder , not this stab of pleasure , when first he saw them sleeping on the ground near Ariel 's cabin that long year ago . |
| 25 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 26 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 27 | It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence . |
| 28 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |
| 29 | He left it lying on the ground and you thought no one was about . |
| 30 | It stops you sitting on the beach and just doing nothing all summer . |