Example sentences of "[be] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 4 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 5 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 6 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 7 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 10 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 11 | You definitely are on along the right lines . |
| 12 | And the programmes that are on during the day , but erm this sort of thing is slightly more important I feel . |
| 13 | I do n't want to turn round cos the lights are on at the moment . |
| 14 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 15 | We keep the trees erm they 're on about the trees are mature well my suggestion is there 's a lot of councillors that are very mature and really they could do far better getting eleven spindly new younger councillors to make these decisions on behalf of all the public tax payers in Nottingham . |
| 16 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 17 | You 'll find it more productive than the one you 're on at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 're on for the night then ? ’ |
| 19 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 20 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 21 | Th f for a tax plan , that 's what I 'm on at the moment , and , and , and that 's a useful er device . |
| 22 | We 're erm that 's the booklet I 'm on at the moment . |
| 23 | she says , I 'm on about the lady with the dark hair |
| 24 | but I 'm on about the Tuesday after , the Monday after is Easter Monday |
| 25 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 26 | I have access to a low-level formatting program , were the drive to be on of the MFM type , but the information on the outside of the casing does n't include the numbers of heads and cylinders . |
| 27 | Dave Sims opened Northampton up and prop Andy Deacon bulldozed through to score what could well turn out to be on of the most important tries of the season … |
| 28 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 29 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 30 | A complementary exhibition that will bring Cezanne and Pissarro together should be on at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris at the same time as the Rishel/Cachin retrospective . |