Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [pron] for a " in BNC.

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1 Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day .
2 He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight .
3 ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly .
4 " I hope you were n't depending on him for a lift , were you ? " he asked Graham .
5 However , there is nothing in Law which prevents a player dropping the ball and then falling on it for a score .
6 ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’
7 When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic .
8 Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company
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