Example sentences of "been [verb] on [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 4 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 5 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 6 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 7 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 8 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 9 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 11 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 12 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 18 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |