Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 2 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 3 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 4 | He 'd been sitting on his fanny for three months now and here was a chance to do something . |
| 5 | Philip rubbed the mist off the glass where he 'd been breathing on it . |
| 6 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 7 | So , he 'd been spying on her , had he ? |
| 8 | He 'd met Romano de Sciorto through researching the book he 'd been planning on the history of the islands . |
| 9 | So , he 'd been planning on cutting the test sessions short , had he ? |
| 10 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 11 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 12 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 13 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 14 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 15 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 16 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 17 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 18 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 19 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 20 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 21 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 22 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 23 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 24 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 25 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 26 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 27 | Robert denied a defence suggestion that he had been advancing on his brother and his family with his knife when he was shot . |
| 28 | He had been playing on the terrace , but he clambered to his feet and , yelling , ‘ Mo ’ car , ’ hurtled down the drive as fast as his little legs would carry him . |
| 29 | He had been lying on his back , looking at the ceiling with his eyes out of focus , taking his pulse over and over again to keep his mind empty . |
| 30 | He had been lying on his back , some distance away from her as usual , but as he spoke he turned on to his side , reaching out and laying a hand lightly across the smoothness of one slender thigh . |