Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 31 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 32 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 33 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 34 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 35 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 36 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 37 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 39 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 40 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 41 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 42 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 43 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 44 | It 's been going on for months |
| 45 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 46 | it 's been going on for |
| 47 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |