Example sentences of "[pron] he [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver of the dust-cart , the driver of the bus , and the husband were all held to have been negligent , the husband because of the dangerous manner in which he was riding on the dust-cart . |
| 2 | He tries to remember accurately Flaubert , which he was combing on the plane : ‘ Their indifferent glances told him of passion dulled by daily satisfaction . ’ |
| 3 | He was delayed by an accident to the Imperial Airways ' HP.42 on which he was flying on the Kisumu-Cairo-Karachi sector . |
| 4 | come down with the stairs to chap , young chap , I told you he 's knocking on the door , it must of been then . |
| 5 | It is that forensic report and another on the comparison of blood samples from the victim and on a tissue found in one of Beattie 's jackets , but not the one he was wearing on the night of the murder , which those trying to clear his name now want released . |
| 6 | Not when he 's told me he was playing on somebody else 's table and not gon na have a game . |
| 7 | By the end of it he was standing on his own , and I said to my mother , ‘ Why did you do that ? ’ |
| 8 | I says he ai n't doing on me what he 's doing on Albert . |
| 9 | He seems to know what he 's doing on everything . |
| 10 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 11 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 12 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 13 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 14 | People kept asking him what he was doing on Uist ; Lewis was further north , ha ha . |
| 15 | She asked what he was doing on the planet . |
| 16 | Firwood Bootle 's skipper Ian Cockbain knew what he was doing on a soft unpredictable Aigburth pitch when he declared at what seemed an easy target at Liverpool . |
| 17 | The physical demands of the play meant that he had to drink three pints of water off stage during each performance to make up for what he was losing on stage . |
| 18 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 19 | I gather they 're going to tell us he was working on some secret defence project , after all . |