Example sentences of "[been] going on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 2 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 5 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 6 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 7 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 8 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 9 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 10 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 11 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |