Example sentences of "[vb past] been go " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 2 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 3 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 4 | While she 'd been gone he 'd put some music on the stereo . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it . |
| 6 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 7 | He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate ! |
| 8 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 9 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 10 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
| 11 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 12 | He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs . |
| 13 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 14 | The ship was n't even properly victualled for the crew : they 'd been going to take food on at Crete . |
| 15 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 16 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 17 | I 'd been going out burgling , like . |
| 18 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 19 | If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said . |
| 20 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 21 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 22 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 23 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 24 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 25 | He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair . |
| 26 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 27 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 29 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 30 | He 'd been going to say important or fashionable . |