Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] on his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon is working on his next project , a book about the Lakes , and his publishers , keen to capitalise on his recent success , have given him very little time to complete it . |
| 2 | In any event , Cherwell felt , it would be politically unwise to suspend work on full employment , given the public interest and the fact that Beveridge was working on his own report . |
| 3 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 4 | Bob was circling on his own horse , waiting for me . |
| 5 | In less than half an hour they were all airborne and Rob was flying on his seventeenth raid over occupied Europe . |