Example sentences of "it 's [be] [verb] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 2 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 3 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 4 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 5 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 7 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 8 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 9 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 10 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 11 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 12 | It 's been going on for months |
| 13 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 14 | it 's been going on for |