Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So the poor old boy had two major operations in three weeks , but he 's getting on fine now . ’ |
| 4 | Yes so and I reckon quite frankly cos he 's living on that lay by up the end and I reckon he was hiding , do a runner or something or he ai n't up to something no good ! |
| 5 | ‘ The Commissioner 's giving a pep talk this afternoon about all the progress he 's making on this shooting . |
| 6 | ‘ So he 's lyin' on top again/Just like Gepetto … ’ |
| 7 | When they had finished unloading , Therese said , ‘ My coco , I shall be helping Loulou for the next week or two , I do n't like leaving him much when he 's working on those big things . |
| 8 | so I have Sally , and , and er , her mum always cooks a meal in the evening so I , I do something like toasted cheese sandwiches or beans on toast or something like that at lunch time , but there was one time when she wanted peanut butter and , all her brother used to ask , I , her brother does n't come to me now , he stays at home cos he 's going on fifteen , and as he 's next door but one anyway , you know if , if anything goes wrong he can come along to me , but all he wanted was my homemade blackcurrant jam , and now he does n't come any more I 've got to actually give him |
| 9 | He 's sold his private jet ; he 's focussing on one job ; winning the world crown . |
| 10 | He was living on dry crusts and frost-bitten potatoes . |
| 11 | He was living on two levels at that time . |
| 12 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 13 | Right now , he was overdosing on both . |
| 14 | He was staying on Sula Sgeir with the guga hunters to make observations in his official capacity . |
| 15 | He was getting on fine with the Founders . |
| 16 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 17 | Minton bought him a motorbike and he was travelling on this to a match with the All Blacks when he had an accident . |
| 18 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 19 | He was sitting on one of the kitchen counters , paws folded , tail tucked up , gazing with stately patience at the larger door . |
| 20 | I saw him this morning but he was sitting on another table . |
| 21 | He was again conscious of where he was : in the room of his own apartment , on the third floor of a large house , he was sitting on this Sunday afternoon , an ageing man , old not in years , but in their disappointments . |
| 22 | There was this veranda on the back of the caravan which Yul Brynner had got from somewhere , and he was sitting on this veranda in his black shirt , black boots and black trousers and smoking a big cigar . |
| 23 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 24 | As champion , he was banking on 80 per cent of the purse — around £6.7 million — for the fight in Las Vegas , but manager Frank Maloney claimed that promoter Don King was trying to force a 75-25 split . |
| 25 | The stool he was standing on broke and he fell to the ground . |
| 26 | He was standing on this big silver pyramid where the stage was . |
| 27 | He is a partner in a sports marketing company , Mitchell-Moore Associates , and returned recently from the United States where he was working on 1994 World Cup projects . |
| 28 | At the same time as he was working on individual buildings , King produced his lists of all the castles in Wales and the Marches , as well as more detailed papers on the counties of Breconshire and Cardiganshire . |
| 29 | Although he was working on some big accounts — British Gas , Bankers Trust , Harris Queensway and Beecham — he was ambitious and keen for a little more action . |
| 30 | I gather they 're going to tell us he was working on some secret defence project , after all . |