Example sentences of "[adj] he [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the age of twenty-one he was on Fleet Street , married with a mortgage , and was living in suffocating respectability in Rayleigh , Essex . |
| 2 | From 1817 until 1819 he was on leave on the Continent where he presented some of his Greenland material to museums in Copenhagen and Vienna . |
| 3 | ‘ But German Intelligence are convinced he 's on their side ? ’ |
| 4 | Another officer said of him : ‘ I think we were just glad he was on our side . |
| 5 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 6 | Yet it was John Lightfoot [ q.v. ] , the Christian Hebraist at Cambridge , who secured an academic position for Abendana , and from 1663 until 1667 he was on the payroll of Trinity College , Cambridge , working on his translation of the Mishnah . |
| 7 | That will depend on how good he is on the day . |
| 8 | ‘ Sure he 's on our side ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | ‘ No , but I 'm sure he 's on his way . ’ |
| 10 | Paul he 's got , he 's er S one table tennis , you sure he 's on table tennis ? |
| 11 | The ‘ Megatop Phoenix ’ era finds Mick wrestling with poor returns , but with the inception of BAD II he 's on the track once more , wearing daft hats and running with the oldest , coolest street gang in the business . |
| 12 | ‘ From nine till 3.30 he was on his feet the entire time , ’ Hamilton recalls . |
| 13 | In 1962 , he married American actress Susan and by 1966 he was on the up again playing a seedy abortionist in the hit movie Alfie . |
| 14 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 15 | On 16 August 1987 he was on duty in plain clothes and as a result of a radio message attended an incident following a wedding party in West London . |
| 16 | It 's like what 's his name Sammy Davis , when he was alive he was on the telly doing all these and he said how can you do this fellows now he said ? |
| 17 | After that he is on his own . |
| 18 | Edgar was offered a grant for six months ; after that he was on his own . |
| 19 | In 1974 he was on board the Glomar Challenger , for Leg 37 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project . |
| 20 | At last he was on his feet but moving with difficulty , sharply drawing in his breath as pain shot through him . |
| 21 | Between 1922 and 1927 he was on the headquarters staff of the League of Nations Union . |
| 22 | In 1640 he was on familiar terms with John Pym [ q.v. ] , his colleague as treasurer of the Providence Island Company . |
| 23 | Only minutes earlier , the gentle giant was in the bar chatting with friends and fans , the next he 's on stage and screaming himself raw as the tortured madman at the wheel of the flaming incandescence that is Into Paradise live . |
| 24 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 25 | She says folk tell how sweet he is on her . |
| 26 | If it is true he is on £4,000-a-week and is asking for more , Brian Clough is right — as usual — to say ‘ no ’ . |