Example sentences of "had been on [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 , |
2 | 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 . |
3 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
4 | Mr Kronweiser had been on to something . |
5 | 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 . |