Example sentences of "it [vb -s] been going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It has been going on for too long .
2 ‘ 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 . ’
3 It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now .
4 You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose .
5 They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time .
6 But it 's been going on for two years . ’
7 It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added .
8 It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest .
9 Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages
10 I gather it 's been going on for years . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop .
14 It 's been going on for months
15 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 .
16 it 's been going on for
17 It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms .
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