Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 2 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 3 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 4 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 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 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 . |
| 7 | But she 'll wear it if she has to , and she wants to go to Lourdes , the priest 's been on to her and she 's … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 9 | The Consul-General 's been on to me . |
| 10 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 11 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 12 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 13 | WALLPAPER king George Carpenter knows this column covers everything : he 's been on about his latest water polo exploits . |
| 14 | Yeah she 's been on about it . |
| 15 | He put another one and it 's been on since then ! |