Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes round banging on the barrels . ) |
| 2 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 3 | He sits there sucking on a dead cheroot , staring at the board like he 's forgotten a phone number . |
| 4 | He stands there staring into the darkness . |
| 5 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 6 | He ca n't he wakes up sobbing in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 7 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 8 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 9 | He finished up fighting with the Czech resistance in Prague until the Russians arrived . |
| 10 | White cell 007 nods : ‘ You ca n't help hearing it , the way he keeps on mooching about the house , hating everything and everyone . |
| 11 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 12 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 13 | Mr McTear , a former 60-a-day smoker , is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming that the company failed to warn him of health hazards when he took up smoking in the mid 1960s . |
| 14 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 15 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 16 | He had found he had a good voice and was taking singing lessons , and he went on flirting with the piano and a trumpet he had bought between practising his flute . |
| 17 | His last years were marred by debilitating illness but , a compulsive worker , he went on writing until the end , dying at his home in Cambridge 19 December 1978 . |
| 18 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 19 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 20 | He went on thatching in a kind of dream . |
| 21 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 22 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 23 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 24 | ‘ But if he went out flailing with the score at 0-1 in a Test and got out , he would be crucified . |
| 25 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 26 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 27 | He carried on racing after the war and in 1946 , at the age of 54 , won the Albi Grand Prix . |
| 28 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 29 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 30 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |