Example sentences of "have 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 9 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 10 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 , |
| 13 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 14 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 15 | Mr Kronweiser had been on to something . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is one other point I 'd just like because yo you 've been on about Labour controlled Councils . |
| 18 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 19 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They 've been on to us . |
| 23 | Well we 've been on to and they do n't seem to do an awful lot . |
| 24 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 29 | ‘ So that 's what you blokes have been on about , ’ he said , newly converted … |
| 30 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |