Example sentences of "it [vb -s] been go on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 2 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 4 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 5 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 6 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 8 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 9 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 13 | It 's been going on for months |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | it 's been going on for |