Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 6 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 8 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 9 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 10 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 13 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 15 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 16 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 17 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |