Example sentences of "he [was/were] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 2 | One of these men had a wife and family , and only joined the Powis Square circle when he was on a spree . |
| 3 | But he was on a weekend break visiting relatives in the town when he sniffed the gas . |
| 4 | This week he was on a beach in Malta ‘ he still gets all over the place , ’ says his agent dreaming of the Premier League . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was on a life support machine at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , Sheffield , yesterday . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | As he pedalled slowly towards the farmhouse , logic told the village constable he was on a fool 's errand . |
| 9 | He was on a motorcycle when arrested by plain clothes police . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Philip Urbach was pulled in , he was on a tour of discovery of the East End . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was on a rampage . |
| 14 | He was on a pushbike and he was sucked into the slip , into the strip blah , into the slipstream of a car lorry |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was a catch in his voice ; he was on a knife edge and for a moment Melissa feared he would break down . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he was on a hiding to nothing really . |
| 19 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether he was on a call out , going towards the crashed his car , he 'd got |
| 21 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 22 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 23 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |
| 24 | It is likely , therefore , that on a major route to the north he was on a duty connected with road-works or perhaps travel arrangements for the governor . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , when he was on a binge he was in no shape to have sex , so he brought it in . |
| 26 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 27 | 18 months ago he was on a family day out when his father 's car hit a lorry . |
| 28 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |
| 29 | He was on a visit to his mother 's home at Londubh , Poolewe , during a holiday from boarding school in Fort Augustus . |
| 30 | He was on a visit to his mother 's home at Glen Nairn , Londubh , Poolewe , during a holiday from boarding school in Fort Augustus . |