Example sentences of "he [was/were] on a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 2 | This week he was on a beach in Malta ‘ he still gets all over the place , ’ says his agent dreaming of the Premier League . |
| 3 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 4 | Emlyn Williams , who stayed with them in this period while he was on a tour with his Charles Dickens readings , describes scenes of domestic industry and felicity . |
| 5 | When Philip Urbach was pulled in , he was on a tour of discovery of the East End . |
| 6 | But he was on a hiding to nothing really . |
| 7 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 8 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |
| 9 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |
| 10 | He was on a visit to his mother 's home at Londubh , Poolewe , during a holiday from boarding school in Fort Augustus . |
| 11 | He was on a visit to his mother 's home at Glen Nairn , Londubh , Poolewe , during a holiday from boarding school in Fort Augustus . |