Example sentences of "he [was/were] on [art] " 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 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 5 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 9 | He were on the shed roof ? |
| 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 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 13 | But he was on a hiding to nothing really . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , when he was on a binge he was in no shape to have sex , so he brought it in . |
| 16 | He was on a rampage . |
| 17 | He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa . |
| 18 | One of these men had a wife and family , and only joined the Powis Square circle when he was on a spree . |
| 19 | As he pedalled slowly towards the farmhouse , logic told the village constable he was on a fool 's errand . |
| 20 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 21 | He was short and sturdy and when he was on a horse he seemed a part of it . |
| 22 | When Philip Urbach was pulled in , he was on a tour of discovery of the East End . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In The fire of Love Rolle emphasises the joyful aspects of his experience and his excitable , intense religiosity gives the reader the impression that he was on a perpetual — even a manic — ‘ high ’ . |
| 25 | This was worrying , for it could mean that he was on a collision course with the Regent , who was raising the Bothwell and Airdrie areas . |
| 26 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 27 | He was completely immune to women when he was on a job . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was on a very uncomfortable bed . |
| 30 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |