Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has n't Mam been on about it every day this week ? ’ |
| 2 | Yeah she 's been on about it . |
| 3 | and erm , mum was sorry that Mark had been on about it , she said , oh I bet that 's where he goes , and erm , like the park beside it was just lovely , |
| 4 | WALLPAPER king George Carpenter knows this column covers everything : he 's been on about his latest water polo exploits . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … ’ |
| 7 | Because I had a number of people who 've been on to me talking about the mess on the , on the recreation ground , and asking what it 's for , and as soon as you explain why , you know , it 's been accepted . |
| 8 | The Consul-General 's been on to me . |
| 9 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 10 | Mr Kronweiser had been on to something . |
| 11 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 12 | Witnesses er who 've who 've been on to us have described seeing five people dead , and at least three wounded who were being rushed to hospital . |
| 13 | They 've been on to us . |
| 14 | I mean we 've got to see it 's a wonder they have n't been on to us cos they 've stopped the er |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 17 | ‘ It is the greatest up after the lowest down — it is the biggest rollercoaster I have been on in my life . ’ |
| 18 | Whether or not the fruits of such a hybrid could be commercially exploited is not yet clear , however MacDonald and Wimpey feel that they are on to something very exciting . |
| 19 | And now somebody 's probably tipped him off that the police are on to him and he 's doing what they all do , running off to Spain where they ca n't get him . |
| 20 | The police are on to it , but that 's not enough for me . ’ |
| 21 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 22 | Lucy , who has 13 grandchildren and two great grandsons , added : ‘ I have already been down to my flat and have had a laugh with my friends . |
| 23 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 24 | Hereford have been down on their luck . |
| 25 | Hunt had recently been down on his luck and one day , whilst trying to interest publishers in his drawings , had been walking the streets with a portfolio under his arm when a taxi drew up with Francis Bacon inside . |
| 26 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 27 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 28 | ‘ That means Goering must have been in on it ? |
| 29 | With her enchanting grin , which had , sadly , not been much in evidence of late , she added , ‘ I expect Sheila from down the road had been in with her ‘ Mr Sheen ’ … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Fighters who have been in with him are never the same again , ’ he said last week . |