Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates shopping on a Saturday . |
| 2 | Oh as he said something , he loves driving , but he hates driving in London . |
| 3 | He hates sitting on the beach ; does nothing but moan . ’ |
| 4 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Tonight he goes swimming with the PT teacher in charge . |
| 6 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 7 | If he goes hunting through the texts for a quick recipe for gold or earthly power he 'll soon get lost , give up . |
| 8 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 9 | After that it will be decided whether or not he goes chasing in the New Year . |
| 10 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 11 | — That night , a perfect night for Manjiku , when he goes prowling in his hunger , under a moon that 's big as the sun , Amadé slides her body into the sea and feels chilled with terror , though the water 's not really cold , the sun shines on it all day . |
| 12 | Because they 're bringing this bloke he goes fishing with |
| 13 | ‘ AWOPBOPALOOBOPAWOMBAMBOOM ! ’ declares the bloke with the panstick and mascara , as he goes frugging around the piano , flashes his gorgeous doll-eyes and makes some astonishing claims about a girl named Daisy . |
| 14 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 15 | The way he goes crunching into tackles makes me so glad I play with him and not against him . |
| 16 | Down , down he goes heading towards Ilkeston — cows in fields stare and moo approval . |
| 17 | The story concerns the misdemeanours of a husband when he goes dancing with another woman when he is supposed to be at a boxing match . |
| 18 | ‘ The Mercy Seat is about this person in solitary confinement , becoming more sensitive to inanimate objects , and as he sits thinking about human and Divine Justice , finding himself judging these things as Good or Evil . ’ |
| 19 | He sits thinking about everything that could go wrong and I suppose it just eats him up . ’ |
| 20 | He sits whispering to his neighbours while someone else is speaking in the debate . |
| 21 | He lies looking at the waves touch the land , crying for his cousin . |
| 22 | Wray is first seen being chauffeur-driven in his limousine and from that moment until he lies dying on the floor of a Pullman car with a bullet in his stomach and uttering the words ‘ Never call a sucker ’ his performance for Daugherty was one in which he never stepped out of character and never eased his ‘ taut , cat-like , steel-wire tenseness ’ . |
| 23 | He stands gazing at the middle barrel . |
| 24 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 25 | I think he needs looking at . |
| 26 | ‘ Who 's no problem ? ’ roars Pierre Coetzer as he starts training in Johannesburg for their fight at Wembley on October 17 . |
| 27 | But then if the foreman sees , he starts complaining about us in front of all the other workers , and even the supervisor , saying we always waste time and talk too much . |
| 28 | He starts thinking about the photos . |
| 29 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 30 | But he notices , it builds up , he starts thinking to himself , they 're always late . |