Example sentences of "have [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've been on |
| 2 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
| 3 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | Branch has been on . |
| 5 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 7 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 8 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 9 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 10 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 11 | I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on |
| 12 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 13 | It has been on before . |
| 14 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 15 | I was only 23 and to hear players like Willie John , Gareth Edwards and Mervyn Davies saying that it was the best tour they 'd been on , then you knew it really was something special . |
| 16 | ‘ If they 'd been on , it would have spoiled the mystery , ’ Sarah explained . |
| 17 | I always remember I had Tommy Ken Russell and he 'd been on . |
| 18 | Would of won it if I 'd been on |
| 19 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 20 | IT WAS the middle of the week when the Marui Pipeline Masters should have been on and was n't that I ran into Pottz in D'Amicos . |
| 21 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 22 | It must have been on or about 25 June , before the others had come . |
| 23 | It just would n't have been on , even if the thought had , inadvertently , crossed his busy mind . |
| 24 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 25 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 26 | To ask wives as well at such short notice might not have been on . |
| 27 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 28 | Startled , he turned , but Therese had darted , scooping her peacock train up over one arm , back around behind the screen , to the side he should have been on . |
| 29 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 30 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |