Example sentences of "[verb] on for year " in BNC.
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1 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
2 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
3 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
4 | It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years , when it should have been released long before . |
5 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
6 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
7 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
8 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
9 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
10 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
13 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
14 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
15 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
16 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
17 | Debate on Southcom 's future , which has dragged on for years , was put on hold when American relations with General Noriega reached rock-bottom . |
18 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
19 | I 'd like to compliment ZZAP ! on a great mag which I 'm sure will go on for years to come ( ho ho ho ! — Ed . ) |
20 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
21 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
22 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
23 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
24 | It could go on for years possibly . |
25 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
26 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
27 | So for one reason or another , people stay on for years in Special Hospitals , sometimes hundreds of miles from their home area , denied the opportunity to develop a normal life for themselves again . |
28 | Due to work by the union , the community is now set to act on repetitive strain injury , something we 've campaigned on for years and in late June the E C's Head of Health and Safety will share a platform with John and Nigel in Brussels to launch G M B's campaign to create working environment funds at E C level to channel money to unions and their health and safety work . |
29 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
30 | And this went on for years this ? |