Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 5 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |