Example sentences of "he was [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 2 | Fortescue dropped the manuscript he was reading on to the table . |
| 3 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 4 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 5 | In 1916 he was co-opted on to the trench fever committee of the War Office , and attempted to discover the causal organism of the fever . |
| 6 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 7 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |
| 8 | At its meeting on 30 October 1990 , the board received a report from Ian Wells , a senior enforcement officer , on the progress of an investigation he was carrying on into the affairs and business of the Winchester Group , an appointed representative of Norwich Union . |
| 9 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |