Example sentences of "that he [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that he 's relying on you . |
| 2 | Maria learns from the men she drinks with in the cafe that he is hiding on the rooftops . |
| 3 | Thus it is that the Masters and Augusta are always spoken of in reverential tones , each contestant being made to feel that he is walking on hallowed ground in close communion with the saints of the game . |
| 4 | His tongue flicked out to caress her nipple , which was throbbing painfully , and with one anguished movement she pressed his mouth further down so that he was sucking on the rosy tip . |
| 5 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 6 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 7 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 8 | He had taken something from his jacket pocket and Harry could see that he was writing on it . |
| 9 | I stared back blandly with the same expression that he was trying on me . |
| 10 | Dostoevsky wanted to stifle the thought that he was riding on the back of Nechacv 's perverse glamour . |
| 11 | He took out his map , which indeed suggested that he was riding on the main Brussels highway , but maps were notoriously inaccurate . |
| 12 | Theodore claimed that he was acting on the instructions of Childebert 's magnates . |
| 13 | Mueller had simply used his privileged position to advise the General Directors that he was operating on the instructions of the President . |
| 14 | He had levered himself up so that he was leaning on the boot of the sports car Scamp had tried to demolish with his shotgun . |
| 15 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 16 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |
| 17 | That he was going on holiday . |
| 18 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 19 | As he spoke , he changed his position so that he was standing on a ledge with his shoulders and forearms resting on a parapet . |
| 20 | Blake felt that he was standing on something . |
| 21 | He 'd told us earlier that he was planning on taking a woman to Tramp that night . |
| 22 | He was aware of the risks involved and that he was embarking on a kind of unnecessary surgery that could threaten his life , but it was what he wanted . |
| 23 | William Barr obliged and , on Oct. 10 , the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , William Sessions , announced that he was embarking on an inquiry into possible misconduct at the Justice Department ( of which the FBI was institutionally a part ) with regard to the handling of CIA reports . |
| 24 | What Ken did not tell was that he was sitting on a chamber pot when Sir Noel walked into the dressing room . |
| 25 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 26 | The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field . |