Example sentences of "had been [verb] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 2 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 3 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 4 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 5 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 6 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 7 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 8 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 9 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 10 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |