Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates shopping on a Saturday . |
| 2 | He hates sitting on the beach ; does nothing but moan . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | in case we 're out a bit longer , I said , Tony said we could leave him out there , but like he said if he starts weeing on the carpet |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had my share of fame but it comes and goes , ’ he says reflecting on his career from quiz show host to stand up comic . |
| 6 | In charge will be Mark Potter who made a hash of Cowley Steps during the Exe Descent but is likely to be more efficient when he gets going on the inevitable canoeing aspects of the centre . |
| 7 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 8 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 9 | Erm , that wall down there right , he keeps going on it |
| 10 | He remembers sitting on a hard seat , among a hundred other candidates in a large , impressively ancient room , scribbling a General Essay paper for three hours on EITHER Political Necessity OR ‘ Enrichissez-vous ! ’ not at all sure what the examiners would be looking for in the answers — their ideas or his ideas , or the former subtly disguised as the latter , or the latter masquerading as the former . |
| 11 | It is a problem which has occupied the minds of those whom Canon Roger Lloyd has dubbed ‘ station saunterers ’ ( ‘ the railway lover counts no time wasted which he spends sauntering on a good station ’ ) . |
| 12 | McAllister was never able to provide the influential play he produces at Leeds and I do n't think he likes performing on the right hand side . |