Example sentences of "be on [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , you 're on about that again ? |
| 3 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 4 | When you were on about that love , what pa was saying about , you know , like every night , that our kids , when , they had their pyjamas on , and they 're like , to get hold , I 'm lying watching television , I 'm usually falling asleep , but I put the kids , you know . |
| 5 | God you 'd 've laughed they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea , he says it does n't sound bad , he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no . |
| 6 | I were on about that today , I ca n't remember who I talked to . |
| 7 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 8 | It 's on about that ? |
| 9 | What 's he 's on with that ? |
| 10 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 11 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 12 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 13 | That 's what he said , and he kept on saying he had only four thousand five hundred pounds or something , that 's all the money he had , he was on about that all the time . |
| 14 | Some of it was on about that man there , face got her to stay the night then he was gon na watch it on telly in the er lounge . |
| 15 | No , oh Alison my mate was on about that . |
| 16 | Yeah he would of been cos he was , he was , he was on about that , erm the |
| 17 | They was on about this and er they was on about that . |
| 18 | Well that 's what she was on about that , and and they was they were going |
| 19 | land up , up there , it took , it took put the bill in , it 's next , it 's next , we need this next two or three bloody month and I was on about this and I was on about that ev it 's possible this is what a lot of them going and getting , you do n't want it |