Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 2 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 3 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 4 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 5 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 6 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 7 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 8 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 10 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 11 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 12 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 16 | We hmm , now , young ladies , how long have you been working on this ? |
| 17 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
| 18 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 19 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 20 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |