Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 32 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 33 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 34 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 35 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 36 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 37 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 38 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 39 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 40 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 41 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 42 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 43 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 44 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 45 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 46 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 47 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 48 | Now , there 's something been going on in Argyle Street in Glasgow this lunchtime which has attracted the interest of more than a few people hereabouts . |
| 49 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 50 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 51 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |
| 52 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 53 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 54 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 55 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 56 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 57 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 60 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |