Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 2 | ‘ Had he been working on it ? |
| 3 | What would he be doing on a scientific installation ? ’ |
| 4 | But the paper was so damp that his pen merely furrowed it , as if he were writing on a slab of butter . |
| 5 | He ground the words out as though he were chewing on granite . |
| 6 | Bedraggled , barefoot , dressed in dirty white ducks , he looked as though he were hovering on the verge of death . |
| 7 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 8 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 9 | I thought you says he were working on them mate 's car ? |
| 10 | She sat up very straight on the side of the bed and continued to address him as if he were sitting on a mat in the Top Infants , wrestling with difficult , dangerous new concepts like add-ups and take-aways and the precise whereabouts of Australia . |
| 11 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 12 | She spotted Nahum Morey in his rented pew , his legs outstretched and his head tipped back against the wood as if he were concentrating on the sermon 's message , but she was suddenly aware that their eyes were meeting . |
| 13 | When they were so intimately joined , how would she not know if he were cheating on her ? |
| 14 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 15 | When such a plan has been lodged it will only be necessary for a buyer to search against the plot he is buying on the appropriate form for a search of part ( Form 94B ) , indicating thereon the plot or flat number " as shown on the estate development plan lodged in the Registry on the " — no plan being then necessary as would be the case if no estate plan had been lodged . |
| 16 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 17 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 18 | Maria learns from the men she drinks with in the cafe that he is hiding on the rooftops . |
| 19 | He is knocking on the door of the Ulster team and a good start to the season with Derry would do his representative prospects no harm . |
| 20 | However , the bargain must be made well in advance ; it will only undermine your disciplinary strategy if you wait until he is lying on the floor , kicking and screaming and refusing to go to the shops , and then begin promising ice-cream . |
| 21 | He is lying on top of the covers , as he often is , with his head at the bottom of the bed and his feet on the pillow . |
| 22 | Can anyone help R. Standring , from Bangor in Gwynedd , who is keen to learn whether or not he is sitting on a gold mine or , to be more precise , swinging with one ? |
| 23 | He is sitting on the corner of the big table in the kitchen , nodding his head and nibbling a dry biscuit , as Shirley Esplin , the flautist , explains about her work to him . |
| 24 | ‘ Also , he is playing on the right and thinking ‘ what 's going on here ? |
| 25 | Edwards , who ran despite a knee ligament injury during his successful record attempt , admits he does not like to dwell on the punishment he is inflicting on his body . |
| 26 | He is travelling on his own , not part of any tour . |
| 27 | He is putting on his protection , a long mitt made of sacking up to his elbow . |
| 28 | If selling to a receiver you must be sure to establish whether the receiver is purchasing in his own name and assuming personal liability or whether he is purchasing on behalf of the receivership . |
| 29 | ‘ If he is going on holiday , the first question is ‘ How many people can we fit in the villa ? ’ ’ |
| 30 | He is working on a scheme with the National Federation of WI to organise a competition to celebrate next year 's 75th anniversary by offering 10 telecottages as prizes for its 9,000 branches and he is hoping the WI will establish a pilot telecottage near its college in Denman , Oxfordshire . |