Example sentences of "he [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confucius or Conrad or whatever you call him was on the doorstep . |
| 2 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 3 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 4 | He were on the shed roof ? |
| 5 | No , stuck it over David 's head , he were on the phone to a client , we took a photo , somebody took a photo of it , we knocked on the door we said David have you got a minute ? |
| 6 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 7 | The drunken miller 's incoherency , " " as he were on the quakke " " ( 4152 ) recalls how Nicholas puts the equivalent of an ass 's head on John the carpenter by portraying him , absurdly , as a duck swimming above the Second Flood ( 3575 – 6 ) . |
| 8 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 9 | He was a thin , brown man with a brass stud at the neck of his striped shirt and a sad expression as if he were on the point of tears . |
| 10 | And you can guarantee , he was on t' phone on Saturday , he phoned me up on Monday , he phoned me on Tuesday and said , now I remember what I wanted . |
| 11 | He was on every party guest-list . |
| 12 | One of these men had a wife and family , and only joined the Powis Square circle when he was on a spree . |
| 13 | But he was on a weekend break visiting relatives in the town when he sniffed the gas . |
| 14 | This week he was on a beach in Malta ‘ he still gets all over the place , ’ says his agent dreaming of the Premier League . |
| 15 | Carl 's parents Lorraine and David , of nearby Hateley Heath , were at his bedside in Sandwell District General Hospital , where he was on a life support machine . |
| 16 | He was on a life support machine at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , Sheffield , yesterday . |
| 17 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 18 | As he pedalled slowly towards the farmhouse , logic told the village constable he was on a fool 's errand . |
| 19 | He was on a motorcycle when arrested by plain clothes police . |
| 20 | By the end of February he was on a second hours ' exercise , and Sister Cooney , who had watched his restless pacing and had seen that he was bored , found him some light work to do . |
| 21 | When Philip Urbach was pulled in , he was on a tour of discovery of the East End . |
| 22 | Emlyn Williams , who stayed with them in this period while he was on a tour with his Charles Dickens readings , describes scenes of domestic industry and felicity . |
| 23 | He was on a rampage . |
| 24 | He was on a pushbike and he was sucked into the slip , into the strip blah , into the slipstream of a car lorry |
| 25 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
| 26 | There was a catch in his voice ; he was on a knife edge and for a moment Melissa feared he would break down . |
| 27 | Posing as Middle East Correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network , he was on a mission to serve as linkman for the DIA 's Lebanese spy network and to frustrate an Iran-Contra arms deal engineered by Oliver North . |
| 28 | But he was on a hiding to nothing really . |
| 29 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 30 | I do n't know whether he was on a call out , going towards the crashed his car , he 'd got |