Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a squat , dusty-looking woman on the threshold of sixty , who had been taken on in the library during the war and whom Mervyn had tried unsuccessfully to dislodge ever since he had become librarian . |
| 2 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 3 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 4 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 5 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 6 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |