Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] on " in BNC.

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1 Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian
2 I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on .
3 This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on .
4 What has really been going on in this establishment ?
5 Online catalogue research at the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) has now been going on , mainly funded by the British Library Research and Development Department , for about five years .
6 Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us .
7 It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on .
8 An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ .
9 Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us .
10 Carry On is carrying on with Carry On Columbus , a brash , bawdy tale very loosely connected to the explorer 's epic voyage .
11 It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before .
12 These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades .
13 Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours .
14 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 .
15 We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something .
16 Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad
17 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 .
18 A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it .
19 ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’
20 We had n't been getting on too well , you see .
21 Jennifer had been restless and we had n't been getting on very well .
22 Many firms have just been hanging on .
23 The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ .
24 Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years .
25 We have n't been getting on too well lately . ’
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