Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 5 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 8 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 11 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |
| 12 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 13 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 14 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 15 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 17 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 18 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 19 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 20 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 21 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |
| 22 | The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of . |
| 23 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 24 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 25 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 26 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |