Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 2 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 3 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |
| 4 | The CEDA leader , José María Gil Robles , had been politically discredited by his electoral defeat of February 1936 and was now stranded in Biarritz , where he had been on holiday when the rising occurred . |
| 5 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 6 | He had been on trial before . |
| 7 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 8 | He had been on duty for nine hours without a break , and after changing the symbols had gone to obtain refreshment . |
| 9 | He had been on duty in a trailer outside the shop in Ilminster , Essex . |
| 10 | The police had arrived while he had been on stage , and a uniformed constable was now clearing the growing crowd round the Stage Door . |
| 11 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 12 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 13 | The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed . |