Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 4 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 5 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 6 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
| 7 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 8 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 11 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |