Example sentences of "has [be] 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 .
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