Example sentences of "[subord] he [was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was on Oxfords , or even Ansons , he was nevertheless getting experience at night and this was important if he wanted to become a Mosquito Pathfinder . |
| 2 | He did n't look like he was on drugs . |
| 3 | He did n't smell like he was on drugs . |
| 4 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 5 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 6 | They faced each other , Harry standing with his hands on his hips , Sir Gregory forcing back his shoulders as if he were on parade and trying to reassure himself of his own rank and standing . |
| 7 | Mark 's brother Tim said from the family home in Trewennack , Helston : ‘ Mark missed last Christmas because he was on guard duty so obviously this year he was making a special effort . ’ |
| 8 | Peter kept looking at his watch because he was on duty at midnight . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs John and Nancy Williams were married in Heighington Church on March 30 , 1942 , while he was on wartime leave from the Army . |
| 10 | Former farmer Michael Bell organised a race for porkers at the county show after seeing hog racing while he was on holiday in Canada . |
| 11 | SOCIAL security bosses axed a man 's benefit while he was on holiday — because they thought Sheffield was ABROAD . |
| 12 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 13 | They were written either while he was on solo trips to London or elsewhere , or in the early days of the war when he was in the RAF . |
| 14 | The stream of barefoot labourers quickened their pace while he was on board . |
| 15 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
| 16 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 17 | Police discovered stolen credit cards in his bedroom belonging to four women who had been mugged in the Acton area of West London , offences which all took place while he was on bail . |
| 18 | For two years he was exhibited in fairgrounds , and it was while he was on display in an empty shop in Whitechapel Road , London , opposite the London Hospital , that Treves first saw him . |
| 19 | A POLICEMAN was yesterday jailed for seven years for raping an 18-year-old woman in his marked patrol car while he was on duty and in uniform . |
| 20 | A police sergeant has been suspended amid allegations that he had sex with a woman in his patrol car while he was on duty . |
| 21 | Nigel Gooch was hit with a fire extinguisher during the attack while he was on duty , just a few hours into 1992 . |
| 22 | This was interesting since he was on Coffin 's list of suspects . |
| 23 | The Royal Commission did , however , recognise that custody and charge would not necessarily coincide , and that there might be intervals of time whilst the suspect was under arrest but not yet charged , and whilst he was on bail after being charged ; and the recommendation was made that the prohibition of questioning should also apply to these periods . |
| 24 | He 's worried that it could lead to another tragic case like that of council worker Anna McGurk , who was raped and murdered by Andrew Hagans whilst he was on bail on another rape charge . |
| 25 | And , whether he was on holiday or not , whether she had offended him or not , that still left the interview question open — did n't it ? |
| 26 | He looked like a Fred to me , being short , shaggy , pimply and with a big nose , and we were all delighted when he was on night duty with us because he then got the job of hauling the heavy haybox into the building and ladling out large dollops of this unidentifiable meal onto our plates . |
| 27 | But he said to Bella , ‘ Yes , he told me , after , that he was dead drunk once , in Portsmouth , when he was on leave from the Navy , and he 'd had them tattooed on for a bet . ’ |
| 28 | He remembered being sick when he was on leave on Knossos . |
| 29 | Townsend , who once walked out on Wilkinson as a kid when he was on trial at Sheffield Wednesday said : ‘ I was having a nightmare until I scored . |
| 30 | ‘ One of the men involved was the same man who asked Anthony to contact MI5 in London when he was on holiday in Mallorca earlier this summer . ’ |