Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 3 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 4 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |
| 5 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 6 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 7 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 8 | 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 . |