Example sentences of "this [verb] [been] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 2 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 3 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 4 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 6 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 7 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |