Example sentences of "he were on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 2 | He were on the shed roof ? |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 7 | 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 . |