Example sentences of "been [verb] on it for " in BNC.
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1 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
2 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
3 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
4 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
5 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
6 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
7 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |