Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [been] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 2 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 3 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 4 | if it 's been standing on the floor though , only the top leaves would , I do n't know what to do about having it there though , that 's right above the radiator , it 'll dry it out that 's , that 's why I said |
| 5 | Cos it had been playing on her mind for weeks . |
| 6 | because it 's been going on a long time . |