Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 2 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 3 | Bosses at Toys R Us , which has been opening on Sundays for more than a year , say the extra day is a definite boost to sales . |
| 4 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 5 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 6 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 7 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 8 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 9 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 10 | Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years . |
| 11 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 12 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 13 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 14 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |