Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 2 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
| 3 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 4 | At the rate you 've been goin' on , that might be a bit sooner or a bit later . |
| 5 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
| 6 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been getting on very well here and I 've had glowing reports from Mrs Martin about your work , but if you feel it your duty to go home I understand . |
| 8 | Let's see how you 've been getting on . |
| 9 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 10 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 11 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 12 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 13 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 14 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 15 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 16 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 17 | Erm the simple reason is I 've been signing on , erm they 've suspended my unemployment . |
| 18 | Erm have you been s yes you 've been signing on |
| 19 | I 've been signing on postally in fact . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we 've been working on digitally remastering them all . |
| 23 | It 's something we 've been working on ever since they both left Liverpool , ’ joked a smiling Kendall afterwards . |
| 24 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 25 | Something I 've been working on . ’ |
| 26 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 27 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 28 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 29 | whatever we 've been working on then , yeah . |
| 30 | And I think that to a large extent erm an alternative wording that that we 've been working on would erm meet those concerns . |