Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 2 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 3 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 4 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 5 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 6 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 7 | The two-year row has been rumbling on since it became clear the Ffestiniog Company had taken an interest in the project . |
| 8 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 9 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 10 | Paul Mukasa , 34 , who works as an electrician , added : ‘ I personally think the economy is in a worse state then the Government has been letting on . ’ |
| 11 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 12 | These compensatory orders can only be obtained against the contravener who , for section 6 purposes , has been carrying on the unauthorised investment business , or who , for section 61 purposes , has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in section 61(1) ( a ) . |
| 13 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 14 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 15 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 16 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 17 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 21 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 22 | What in heaven 's name has been going on ? |
| 23 | It would seem that the birth of Isaac has made all the difference , and might hold the clue to our question about what has been going on . |
| 24 | We must stop , as we stopped at the end of the story of the binding of Isaac , that other story about God bringing a bearer of his promises to the brink of death , and ask more about what has been going on . |
| 25 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 26 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 27 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 28 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 29 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 30 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |