Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 2 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 3 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 4 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 5 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 6 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 7 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 8 | 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 . |