Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 3 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 4 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |
| 5 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 6 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |
| 7 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 8 | ‘ The tourism infrastructure is there , with the new Tower Museum , the craft village and the new interpretive centre , as well as all the events and festivals which have been going on . |
| 9 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 11 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 12 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 13 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 14 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 15 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 16 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |