Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedraggled , barefoot , dressed in dirty white ducks , he looked as though he were hovering on the verge of death . |
| 2 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 3 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 4 | She spotted Nahum Morey in his rented pew , his legs outstretched and his head tipped back against the wood as if he were concentrating on the sermon 's message , but she was suddenly aware that their eyes were meeting . |
| 5 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 6 | Maria learns from the men she drinks with in the cafe that he is hiding on the rooftops . |
| 7 | He is knocking on the door of the Ulster team and a good start to the season with Derry would do his representative prospects no harm . |
| 8 | However , the bargain must be made well in advance ; it will only undermine your disciplinary strategy if you wait until he is lying on the floor , kicking and screaming and refusing to go to the shops , and then begin promising ice-cream . |
| 9 | He is sitting on the corner of the big table in the kitchen , nodding his head and nibbling a dry biscuit , as Shirley Esplin , the flautist , explains about her work to him . |
| 10 | ‘ Also , he is playing on the right and thinking ‘ what 's going on here ? |
| 11 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 12 | Hard as he is working on the switch , it may be that Bayfield is being groomed in the rigours of international rugby so as to be better able to step into Dooley 's shoes when he finally retires , probably at the end of this season . |
| 13 | And there , i Peter when he 's preaching on the day pentecost , he says this is was has happened , God has done just that , just as Jesus promised . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps he 's saving on the gas bill back at the Vicarage . ’ |
| 15 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 16 | Maybe he 's leaning on the safety rail , with his back to the path and his head bent . |
| 17 | ( I met this boy , he 's living on the streets , we stole a boat . ) |
| 18 | And he 's banging on the engine cos it makes him sick |
| 19 | is the bathroom , so she must have been in there cos he 's hammering on the door and bashing it and kicking it . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's putting on the car alarm , ’ thinks Anna . |
| 21 | skipped half the stages or you know how do you feel when he 's working on the board and he skips several lines ? |
| 22 | Well , he 's working on the canal now , going 'twixt Bingley and Liverpool , carrying cloth . |
| 23 | He 's lying on the ground , and one of the inch-high companions walks in front of his face to verify he 's dead . |
| 24 | He 's turning on the set . |
| 25 | come down with the stairs to chap , young chap , I told you he 's knocking on the door , it must of been then . |
| 26 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 27 | He was leaning on the wall with his arms folded , waiting . |
| 28 | He had levered himself up so that he was leaning on the boot of the sports car Scamp had tried to demolish with his shotgun . |
| 29 | Yeah , but she said he 's alright and erm I said he 's he was jumping on the chair , should he ought to ? |
| 30 | He was laying on the ground for about half an hour . |