Example sentences of "i have be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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1 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
2 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
3 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
4 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
5 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
9 | Something I 've been working on . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
12 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
13 | Erm the simple reason is I 've been signing on , erm they 've suspended my unemployment . |
14 | I 've been signing on postally in fact . |
15 | I 've been chattering on far too long . |
16 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
17 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |