Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 2 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 5 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |