Example sentences of "he [be] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Had he been on the Cardinal 's business or lying in ambush for Irvine ?
2 He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham .
3 He were on the shed roof ?
4 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 ?
5 Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision .
6 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 ) .
7 When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire .
8 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 .
9 Michael was taken to Darlington 's Memorial hospital with serious head injuries and later transferred to the intensive care unit at Middlesbrough general , where he is on a life support machine .
10 He is on a yacht , we can go there by a launch .
11 Speaking from America where he is on a business trip , McCauley said : ‘ This is the first time we have refused a request from him .
12 ‘ I will not accept it until he is on a mortuary slab .
13 Even the devil is God 's devil : he is on a chain held by God , even though the chain is a long one .
14 ‘ Aziz is a shifty fellow , ’ Mr Malik had said , ‘ and he is on no account to be allowed near Hasan .
15 SCOTTISH Ambulance Service fleet manager Ed Hodson believes he is on the way to knocking £1 million a year off fuel bills by gradually switching totally to diesel .
16 I know that when I see the books of a hitherto-collected writer being grouped in a catalogue in half-dozens and tens , instead of being offered singly , he is on the way out so far as the collecting world counts for anything .
17 Admittedly , he does n't yet earn a fraction of the money a man of his age and experience would expect to earn outside , but he is on the way to the real big-time .
18 This sounds like a beg for someone to come in for him and I reckon Wilko 's phone will soon be ringing and he is on the way out .
19 ‘ There is obviously long-term rehabilitation for Mick , but he is on the way back . ’
20 ‘ There is obviously long-term rehabilitation for Mick , but he is on the way back . ’
21 He is on the brink of breakdown , sobbing and incoherent . ’
22 He is on the brink of taking it .
23 They also think he must be dominant , decisive and virile but he 's not , he 's just as he is on the field .
24 He is on the lookout for cars — smart , chauffeur-driven cars .
25 Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi .
26 he is on the streets if he makes a pass on Helen
27 That will depend on how good he is on the day .
28 He is on the road to a conversion he would rather not have .
29 So , at the age of 31 , instead of standing in court in a pinstripe making pleas in mitigation for the Saturday night disorderly drunks , he is on the road to fame , suitcase and guitar in hand .
30 He is on the board of a number of City companies , and is a former Master of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers .
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