Example sentences of "they [verb] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 2 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |
| 3 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 4 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 5 | Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that . |
| 6 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 7 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 8 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 9 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 10 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 14 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 15 | They had been loaded on at Perm and were being shipped for slaughter and wool to Irkutsk , the great Cossack camp in eastern Siberia . |
| 16 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 17 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 18 | I have gipies coming up from Somerset into my county division because they have been moved on because Somerset is designated . |
| 19 | Borders Regional Council also believes the new fishing dimension in the funding rules , given the fishing industry at Eyemouth , will strengthen the case for access to rural development to finance which they have been working on with Scottish Borders Enterprise for several years . |
| 20 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 21 | Therefore , from the dealer 's point of view , the hire-purchase transaction has the advantage that he will not be prevented by either of those sections from recovering the goods after they have been passed on by the hirer to an innocent third party . |
| 22 | The commitments have been abandoned before they have been voted on . |
| 23 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |