Example sentences of "[been] [verb] on for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
2 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
4 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
5 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |