Example sentences of "[adj] he [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Between 1922 and 1927 he was on the headquarters staff of the League of Nations Union . |