Example sentences of "he was [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 2 | SHE WAS LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AND HE WAS SPOKESMAN ON NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE TIME . |
| 3 | The only thing I could put it down to was his father was a big Mason and he was Freemason on the Bench . |
| 4 | He was second on his debut at Leicester but went back to that track to win by 20 lengths . |
| 5 | From 1964 to 1967 he was adviser on the public service to President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya . |
| 6 | From 1954 to 1958 he was adviser on Militia to the Army and in 1963 was appointed honorary Colonel of the British Columbia Regiment . |
| 7 | A big erm , funnily enough , although three of the other chaps that were involved in , erm , one of them really upset me cos they run up together , he was navigator on together . |
| 8 | In fact , he was fishing on a fiord nearby at the precise moment when his detective brought him the news that Lord Mountbatten had been killed . |
| 9 | He was fishing on the Red Lion stretch sporting float and pole tackle with maggot for an all-roach catch . |