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

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1 A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months .
2 Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example .
3 What when he 's on the drugs , some of these painkillers ?
4 Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past .
5 Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so .
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