Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 2 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 3 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 4 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 7 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 8 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 9 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 10 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 11 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 12 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 13 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 14 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 17 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 18 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 19 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 20 | It 's been going on for months |
| 21 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 22 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 23 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 24 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |
| 25 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 26 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 27 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 28 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 30 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |