Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 31 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 32 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 33 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 34 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 35 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 38 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 39 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 40 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 41 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 42 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 43 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 44 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 45 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 46 | This one seems to have been going on for far too long ! |
| 47 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 48 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 49 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 50 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 51 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 52 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 53 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 54 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 55 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 56 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 57 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 58 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 59 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 60 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |