Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] go [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time .
2 Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’
3 My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm .
4 What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ .
5 It has been going on for too long .
6 ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’
7 It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now .
8 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 .
9 She said it had been going on for a few months . ’
10 One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time …
11 There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years .
12 But it 's been going on for two years . ’
13 It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added .
14 It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest .
15 Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages
16 I gather it 's been going on for years . ’
17 We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be .
18 It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and .
19 it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop .
20 It 's been going on for months
21 And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law .
22 it 's been going on for
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