Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [been] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 2 | No sign yet of the symmetrical multi-processors IBM has been working on with Groupe Bull SA . |
| 3 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 4 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 5 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 6 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 7 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 8 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 9 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 10 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 11 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 12 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 13 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 14 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 15 | She had an embarrassed recollection of having burst into tears , of demanding to know how long the affair with Henrietta had been going on . |
| 16 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 17 | Stuart 's been bleating on about how I changed my name , has n't he ? |
| 18 | All of this makes it very attractive for the application which Luck and Swanson have been working on — the construction of switched capacitor filter circuits . |
| 19 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |