Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 2 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 3 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 4 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 5 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 6 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 7 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 9 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 10 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 11 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 12 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 13 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 19 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 20 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 23 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 24 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 25 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 26 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 28 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 29 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 30 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |