Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his international notoriety , Harari is barely known in his native country , and the one photograph known to exist of him was reprinted on the front pages of newspapers yesterday accompanying the news of his arrest . |
| 2 | And that Azul knew the full story but he was leaving on a foreign trip … well , this afternoon . |
| 3 | He was leaving on the early morning train for Zaragoza , then on to Barcelona . |
| 4 | He was leaning on a wooden sill , writing intently . |
| 5 | His ineptitude at mathematics delayed his commission , which was finally granted on the day he was killed on an operational flight . |
| 6 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 7 | His tongue flicked out to caress her nipple , which was throbbing painfully , and with one anguished movement she pressed his mouth further down so that he was sucking on the rosy tip . |
| 8 | Earlier , Aindow told the court that he was hit on the left thigh by the side of the car , which knocked him into the side of road and possibly on to the kerb . |
| 9 | However , an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman , when he was asked on the same day whether negotiations had been more constructive with regard to the long-standing Kashmir dispute , said only that " the talks should be viewed as a measured and gradual approach to stabilization of our relations " . |
| 10 | He took out his map , which indeed suggested that he was riding on the main Brussels highway , but maps were notoriously inaccurate . |
| 11 | He was mounted on a gipsy pony and had make-shift saddle-bags slung on either side . |
| 12 | He was mounted on a fine black gelding , glossy coated and fresh . |
| 13 | He was living on the wrong side of the highway . |
| 14 | He claimed that he was struck on the left leg and was knocked off-balance and said that afterwards he had difficulty moving . |
| 15 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 16 | ‘ But he was injured on the previous occasion ? ’ |
| 17 | For although he was born on the Indian sub-continent , he was educated and lives in the UK . |
| 18 | He was born on the same day as Sarah but he 's an hour earlier . |
| 19 | By 1627 Buckingham 's pro-Catholic foreign policy had collapsed , and he was bent on a French war ; the need now was for the service of men with enough local influence to raise money for this purpose . |
| 20 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |
| 21 | But when Mozart said of Stein 's piano that ‘ the little hammers fall back to rest immediately after they have hit the strings ’ , he was remarking on the quick response of Stein 's action . |
| 22 | He was trying on a new coat which had just been delivered . |
| 23 | He was chewing on an unlighted cheroot . |
| 24 | He was commenting on the entrepreneurial style of his UGM who had entered the NHS from industry in the wake of the Griffiths changes ( about one hundred appointments went to outsiders ) . |
| 25 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 26 | As the candidate of New Democracy ( ND ) , he was elected on the second round of voting with 153 votes ( two more than the required absolute majority of the 300 seats in parliament ) . |
| 27 | He was elected on the third round of voting . |
| 28 | He was replaced on an interim basis by his deputy , Faruq Dahruj , and the LCP central committee called for an extraordinary conference to discuss the party 's political plan and organizational structure , change the party 's name and elect a new leadership . |
| 29 | The singer Elton John has taken a national newspaper to court over an article last December which claimed he was hooked on a bizarre diet which meant he spat out food without swallowing . |
| 30 | He suffered , however , from severe seasickness and in 1885 he was placed on the retired list . |