Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 2 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 3 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 4 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
| 5 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
| 6 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 7 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 9 | Something I 've been working on . ’ |
| 10 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 11 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 13 | Erm the simple reason is I 've been signing on , erm they 've suspended my unemployment . |
| 14 | I 've been signing on postally in fact . |
| 15 | I 've been chattering on far too long . |
| 16 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 17 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 18 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 19 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 20 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 21 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 22 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 23 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 24 | At the rate you 've been goin' on , that might be a bit sooner or a bit later . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been getting on very well here and I 've had glowing reports from Mrs Martin about your work , but if you feel it your duty to go home I understand . |
| 26 | Let's see how you 've been getting on . |
| 27 | Erm have you been s yes you 've been signing on |
| 28 | It means you 've — you 've been coming on to me … ’ |
| 29 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 30 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |