Example sentences of "he was [verb] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peyton did move back into some degree of opposition ( now called Whig ) contact , and he was involved on the peripheries of the 1682–3 Rye House plot . |
| 2 | Theodore claimed that he was acting on the instructions of Childebert 's magnates . |
| 3 | Mueller had simply used his privileged position to advise the General Directors that he was operating on the instructions of the President . |
| 4 | But he was saved on the greens , especially the seventeenth , where he holed a monster putt which he described as about 60 feet long , to sweep into the lead . |
| 5 | A natural pre-school reader , he attended dame and junior schools and a chapel , but was otherwise cloistered until , in 1866 , aged nine , he was thrown on the streets following his aunt 's death . |
| 6 | Is the Prime Minister aware that the parents of Carly Reavill and everyone else know that he was misinformed on the circumstances concerning that child 's tragic death ? |
| 7 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 8 | He was found on the rocks beneath Kinghorn Ness ; his horse , his favourite white mare called Tamesin was near by . |
| 9 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |