Example sentences of "on [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played .
2 And with this go , I 've just got to go on through this , the average weight of an consignment Express , or on next day is twenty eight kilos , and if you 're talking about two day , three day , it was ninety nine kilos .
3 It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D.
4 Also , and I do n't want to go on about this , I was a lonely person in those days and I had very little else to think about .
5 Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time .
6 Mysterious processes go on about this .
7 He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him .
8 Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) .
9 Mm , mm , we might even manage , I mean , we , we might talk later on about this , but , perhaps you know have two or three people working on a campaign if , if , if , if it was felt to be better that way , mm , mm .
10 I 'm sorry to go on about this BBC thing but it does seem important to me . ’
11 ‘ Superintendent , I do n't know why you keep harping on about this .
12 erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry .
13 Em , much earlier you was on about this erm , erm , television licences , er , be it , an another extra twenty pound being added to any , another set over the top of what you 've got .
14 We heard earlier on about this this this regimental bath I think they call it , this bath of excreta and urine and bleach and the brigadier and David Lightbown said how rare this was , er did you ever see it ?
15 Father and Mrs Clamp droned on about this and that .
16 A whole lot of serious debating went on about this .
17 I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which
18 er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er
19 On about this flat that George , helping him to get the thing for
20 Well , this , you know we 're on about this money
21 Er not Jenny , Josie was on about this morning that er Jenny had ?
22 They was on about this and er they was on about that .
23 I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it .
24 I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ?
25 land up , up there , it took , it took put the bill in , it 's next , it 's next , we need this next two or three bloody month and I was on about this and I was on about that ev it 's possible this is what a lot of them going and getting , you do n't want it
26 and it was on about this erm place in France , is n't that where one of them lived ?
27 about the hall , you see you , as I said to Kay , oh of course Kay has this you know on about this scouts
28 could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again !
29 And I think I 'll have to now push on about this
30 I mean that because Deborah kept going on and on and on about this three hour thing did n't she ?
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