Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] on [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phyllis Aldworth , 64 , of Mable Avenue , Shildon , has been surviving on them for years . |
| 2 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 3 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 4 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 5 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 6 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 7 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 8 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 9 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 10 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 11 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |