Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 2 | The couple had been lying on it . |
| 3 | September sunshine had been shining on it ever since Leyton . |
| 4 | He liked swimming too and in the summer had built a raft , but it had disintegrated in the middle of the river while he and the twins had been sitting on it . |
| 5 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 6 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 7 | Philip rubbed the mist off the glass where he 'd been breathing on it . |
| 8 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 9 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 10 | Your boy 's been working on it . |
| 11 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 12 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 13 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 14 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 15 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 16 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 17 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 18 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
| 19 | ‘ Had he been working on it ? |
| 20 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 21 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 22 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 23 | Yes you have been doing , you have been working on it yes , yes |
| 24 | There 's three men been working on it all the time . |
| 25 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 26 | THE CAT 'S BEEN SLEEPING ON IT ALL AFTERNOON ! |