Example sentences of "been [verb] on for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 4 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 5 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 6 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |