Example sentences of "be on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remarked however that there was little to choose between kitchen and living-room in respect of air , since the oven had been on since dawn . |
| 2 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 3 | not been on for ages . |
| 4 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 5 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 6 | I 've been on to Di this long time and have one like that , then you can and put down so you can have more room , you know , when you put it out . |
| 7 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |
| 9 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 10 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 11 | Fraser said wearily , ‘ Have you been on to Dublin ? ’ |
| 12 | He 's just been on to Maureen , got a couple of orders bearings and an Anglia contact . |
| 13 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | David Bates 's concisely bold figure studies Marsden Heartly often seems to haunt his work are on at Cowles and Susan Rothenberg 's nervous-making fractured figurations are at Sperone Westwater ( both shows from 2–30 May ) . |
| 16 | Recent abstractions by Cora Cohen are at McCoy until 20 March and , until the same date , the ever brighter , ever quirkier biomorphisms of Carroll Dunham are on at Sonnabend . |
| 17 | New black-and-white prints by him are on at Arthur Roger until the 24th . |
| 18 | Landscape , of course , is his forte and a show of recent works in this department ( oil paintings and graphics ) are on at Marlborough starting 6 January and continuing until the end of the month . |
| 19 | Francois Morellet is showing ‘ Relache ’ , a series of recent works whose title pays homage to Picabia , at Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert ( 16 January to 20 February ) while Vera Rohm 's ‘ Foto-tele ’ , monumental sculptures , are on at Nikki Diana Marquadt until the middle of January , together with large panels by Horst Haack , taken from pages of one of his albums , covered with sketches , quotations , poems and newspaper cuttings . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Davies has been busy with the camera and his latest 16 x 20 inch black-and-white prints of sharply-shadowed New York store fronts are on at Sonnabend through to the end of the month . |
| 21 | Sculpture by Peter Briggs and drawings and watercolours by Martin Barré are on until mid-April at Barbier-Beltz . |
| 22 | Oh , the same what I says I do n't know what they 're on about , they 're on about garlic , well I know about garlic |
| 23 | Ooh can I just mention while we 're while we 're on about tables , well we 're not really on about it , but can I just mention it . |
| 24 | We 're on about taxation this week , well the- they 're in trouble over that now . |
| 25 | Looking round the table she added , ‘ While we 're on about weddings , Aah might as well say that Aah 'm going ti marry Tobias . |
| 26 | They 're on about Neighbours . |
| 27 | Right then , we 're on to stress . |
| 28 | now we 're on to matters arising . |
| 29 | We 're on to tape two now ? |
| 30 | Yeah we 're on to tape two cos this A side of tape two . |