Example sentences of "he [was/were] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 2 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 3 | He was a thin , brown man with a brass stud at the neck of his striped shirt and a sad expression as if he were on the point of tears . |
| 4 | The drunken miller 's incoherency , " " as he were on the quakke " " ( 4152 ) recalls how Nicholas puts the equivalent of an ass 's head on John the carpenter by portraying him , absurdly , as a duck swimming above the Second Flood ( 3575 – 6 ) . |
| 5 | No , stuck it over David 's head , he were on the phone to a client , we took a photo , somebody took a photo of it , we knocked on the door we said David have you got a minute ? |
| 6 | He were on the shed roof ? |
| 7 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 8 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 9 | Not long ago he was on the phone to me moaning about Paul saying , he wo n't give me the time of day . |
| 10 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 11 | He was on the telephone to his wife in Turin when his chauffeur ( who also died ) drove the armour-plated car through a red light into a bus . |
| 12 | It took his score for the season to 20 and , ironically , he was on the receiving end of an unsuccessful objection . |
| 13 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 14 | By the end of that first tour he was on the cover of Rolling Stone . |
| 15 | McLeish had rung his own flat to collect messages ; he could see Catherine just waking , and waved to her to indicate that he was on the phone . |
| 16 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 17 | He was on the warpath looking for the killer dog . |
| 18 | Simon , yesterday , denying he was on the prom at all . |
| 19 | As the Fifties ended he was on the point of multiplying millions by opening the first Playboy Club , in Chicago , where the girls , not the customers , were dressed as rabbits . |
| 20 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 21 | He was on the ground down . |
| 22 | The Ajdabiya shaikh of one of the lineages involved confirmed the story : he was on the point of departure for Kufra to lend his weight to the representatives of reason and peace . |
| 23 | Burns became a cult figure because he was on the winning side , but appeared late enough on the scene to be able to sentimentalise the vanquished , thereby creating the illusion at least of being a national poet . |
| 24 | Nigel Mansell had for years been saying : ‘ Just go out and win ! ’ , and finally he was on the point of doing precisely that . |
| 25 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 26 | Now he was on the edge of the pine forest at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 27 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 28 | He was on the move again , whether he had annoyed the proprietor at his cheap hotel by his late night rowdiness , or quarrelled with one of the pimps because the girls staying there posed for him free or simply grown tired of the place , is not clear . |
| 29 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 30 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |