Example sentences of "he be [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's put on six pounds , ’ she told the table . |
| 2 | He 's sold his private jet ; he 's focussing on one job ; winning the world crown . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | He was living on two levels at that time . |
| 9 | On the following day he was indicted on 11 counts , including murder , loan sharking , obstruction of justice and tax evasion . |
| 10 | After the surrender on Saturday 29 April he was courtmartialled on 9 May and shot in Dublin 12 May 1916 . |
| 11 | He was whelped on 17 March 1970 , so the history of the Rottweiler in New Zealand is in its infancy , barely twenty years old . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was acquitted on one count . |
| 15 | His co-defendant , Frank " Frankie Locs " Locascio , was also convicted of murder and racketeering , although he was acquitted on one count of illegal gambling . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | The starting place for Reagan was the small midwestern town of Tampico , Illinois , where he was born on 6 February 1911 . |
| 19 | He was born on 24 April 1906 at 1377 Herkimer Street , Brooklyn , New York City . |
| 20 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 21 | In the Welsh war of 1282–3 , he was appointed on 18 August 1282 to command the English troops on the island of Anglesey . |
| 22 | He was enrolled on 8 March 1790 , paying six months ' fees in advance , and completed his training on 7 March 1 791 . |
| 23 | Jampa Ngodrup : a 46-year-old medical doctor in Lhasa , capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China , he was sentenced on 24 December 1990 to 13 years ' imprisonment on charges of spying . |
| 24 | FRANCISCO MIRANDA BRANCO : a 41-year-old civil servant in Dili , East Timor , he was sentenced on 23 June . |
| 25 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 26 | He was rewarded on 16 April 1660 when the council of state outlawed all news-books except his pair . |
| 27 | He was intercepted on 2 December . |
| 28 | As one who had ‘ stood for the true religion ’ ( that is , Protestantism ) in Mary I 's first Parliament , he was assured of a leading place in local government , serving as vice-admiral of Sussex ( 1559–94 ) , deputy lieutenant of Surrey from 1569 , and sheriff again in 1579 ; he was knighted on 14 May 1576 . |
| 29 | In 1688 Gould married Frances , daughter of Sir John Hartopp , third baronet [ q.v. ] , of Freathby , Leicestershire , and he was knighted on 14 April 1721 . |
| 30 | He was knighted on 11 April 1553 and was one of the City fathers signing the letters patent of Edward which made Lady Jane Grey queen . |