Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was regarded on both sides of the House not only as charming , but as very honest and courageous , and I think that we can genuinely say that he had friendships on both sides . |
| 2 | Before Conrad had received the pope 's letter , following his overtures to him , he was slain on 6 December 1202 and the body severely mutilated . |
| 3 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
| 4 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 5 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 6 | Although Diro continued to cling to office , by mid-1991 his position looked increasingly untenable ; in September he was convicted on 81 charges of corruption , and he resigned in October [ see pp. 38534-35 ] . |
| 7 | He was living on dry crusts and frost-bitten potatoes . |
| 8 | He was living on two levels at that time . |
| 9 | If the legend is true , he kept his word for he was seen on countless occasions over the years . |
| 10 | On the following day he was indicted on 11 counts , including murder , loan sharking , obstruction of justice and tax evasion . |
| 11 | Luckily he was engaged on operational matters when his ‘ guest ’ arrived , and turned him over temporarily to his intelligence officer , a flight lieutenant called Benson , who recognized the symptoms instantly and prescribed a double whisky . |
| 12 | And if he was engaged on some scheme of his own , she had better leave him to pursue it without interference . |
| 13 | He was opposed on this point by the German naturalist Moritz Wagner , whose book The Darwinian Theory and the Law of the Migration of Organisms of 1868 insisted on the need for a period of geographical isolation . |
| 14 | After the surrender on Saturday 29 April he was courtmartialled on 9 May and shot in Dublin 12 May 1916 . |
| 15 | He was whelped on 17 March 1970 , so the history of the Rottweiler in New Zealand is in its infancy , barely twenty years old . |
| 16 | In the case of Henry VI , he was deposed on 4 March 1461 ( thus ending his 39th regnal year ) , to be succeeded on the same day by Edward IV . |
| 17 | The second victim , Tahir Iqbal , was found dead in jail in Lahore , where he was detained on alleged charges of blasphemy . |
| 18 | The second victim , Tahir Iqbal , was found dead in jail in Lahore , where he was detained on alleged charges of blasphemy . |
| 19 | The second is that this form was not served on him , although it was undoubtedly served on the governor of the prison where he was detained on 3 July and should have been given to Mr. Butler . |
| 20 | He was acquitted on all counts after the court heard the boy in question , by then a young man , had been put under pressure to testify by the FBI and the district attorney . |
| 21 | He was acquitted on one count . |
| 22 | His co-defendant , Frank " Frankie Locs " Locascio , was also convicted of murder and racketeering , although he was acquitted on one count of illegal gambling . |
| 23 | Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force . |
| 24 | An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months . |
| 25 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 26 | The starting place for Reagan was the small midwestern town of Tampico , Illinois , where he was born on 6 February 1911 . |
| 27 | He was born on 24 April 1906 at 1377 Herkimer Street , Brooklyn , New York City . |
| 28 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 29 | In the Welsh war of 1282–3 , he was appointed on 18 August 1282 to command the English troops on the island of Anglesey . |
| 30 | He was appointed on 3rd September 1860 , and signed officially on the following day : |