Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 2 | She became very busy with the packages he was stacking on the jetty . |
| 3 | He looked an elegant stranger in his charcoal-grey suit , silk shirt and tie , and not least in the Gucci loafers he was wearing on his feet . |
| 4 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 5 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 6 | As the sub-manne pulled away , the captain ordered one of two soldiers he was carrying on board to open fire with his Lewis gun on the survivors in the dinghy . |
| 7 | I 'm not at all happy about the way he washed the clothes he was wearing on Friday night . ’ |