Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] on 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 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 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 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 9 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 12 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 13 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 19 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 22 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 23 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 24 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 26 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 27 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |