Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 2 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 3 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 4 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 5 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 6 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 7 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 8 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 9 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 11 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 12 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 13 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 14 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 15 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 16 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 17 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 18 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 19 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 20 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 21 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 22 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 23 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 24 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 25 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 26 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 27 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 28 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 29 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |