Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] on it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 2 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 3 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 4 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 5 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 6 | The couple had been lying on it . |
| 7 | He liked swimming too and in the summer had built a raft , but it had disintegrated in the middle of the river while he and the twins had been sitting on it . |
| 8 | September sunshine had been shining on it ever since Leyton . |