Example sentences of "he [v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then meeting him walking on the Heath . |
| 2 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
| 3 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 4 | Then I come along and finds him sleepin' on the floor here like a big bebe an' I cover him up . ’ |
| 5 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 6 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 7 | French television showed him lying on the station platform with the toilet wrapped around his arm . |
| 8 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 9 | See him lying on the floor yeah , he 's dead , and then |
| 10 | When Lord Henry returned home that night , there was a letter for him lying on the table . |
| 11 | Very good about him getting on the television . |
| 12 | After the service , she would find him loitering on the towpath , and he would join her as if they had n't parted . |
| 13 | Tessa could hear him breathing on the threshold outside for several minutes more , as if he were trying to summon up the courage to return and say something . |
| 14 | They had heard , or heard of , prophets such as Jeremiah or Ezekiel speaking of God being behind the disaster , of him fighting on the enemy side . |
| 15 | That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever . |
| 16 | When the crunch came , she left him standing on the dance floor . |
| 17 | It was the sort of mistake he had made too often in the past and accounted for him standing on the brink of a lonely middle age . |
| 18 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 19 | Before the shooting Melrose Spence , a friend of the defendant , saw him sitting on the bonnet of his car , talking to someone in a jeep . |
| 20 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 21 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 22 | How would him sitting on the bench give him ‘ coaching experience ’ ? ? |
| 23 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 24 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 25 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 26 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 27 | I mean , what was he doing on the staircase anyway ? |
| 28 | ' — another thing : what the fuck was he doing on the roof in the first place ? ’ |