Example sentences of "[be] on [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 3 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 4 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 7 | And the programmes that are on during the day , but erm this sort of thing is slightly more important I feel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't want to turn round cos the lights are on at the moment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 'll find it more productive than the one you 're on at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 're on for the night then ? ’ |
| 13 | Th f for a tax plan , that 's what I 'm on at the moment , and , and , and that 's a useful er device . |
| 14 | We 're erm that 's the booklet I 'm on at the moment . |
| 15 | she says , I 'm on about the lady with the dark hair |
| 16 | but I 'm on about the Tuesday after , the Monday after is Easter Monday |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment . |
| 22 | As though to prepare us for that vision , Rubin Spangle has devised a show of early Flavin works from the Sixties which will be on until the end of the month . |
| 23 | Now erm I think it is and he rang me up and asked me would the strike still be on in the middle of er February . |
| 24 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 25 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 26 | Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river . |
| 27 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 28 | oh well whatever , no it was n't , they were on about the B B C |
| 29 | you know the other night you were on about the fish that you had for your tea |
| 30 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |