Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 2 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 3 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 4 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 5 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 6 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 9 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 10 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 14 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 15 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 16 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 17 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 20 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 21 | 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 . |