Example sentences of "been go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't think I do n't know what 's been goin' on . ’ |
| 3 | At the rate you 've been goin' on , that might be a bit sooner or a bit later . |
| 4 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 5 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 6 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 7 | Cruel observers may remark that he 's been going downhill ever since . |
| 8 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 9 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 10 | Although Strach 's performances have been going downhill ( by his standards ) since he injured his back . |
| 11 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 12 | He 's been going even longer than Johnny Carson and appearing on his show is a pleasurable experience , with great Irish hospitality thrown in . |
| 13 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 14 | In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained . |
| 15 | When the gloom lifts , Hungary 's famous pessimists will be surprised to discover how much has actually been going right . |
| 16 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 17 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 18 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
| 19 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |
| 20 | He had been going regularly , but out of courtesy . |
| 21 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 22 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 23 | Standards for incineration have been going up too — in many countries even faster than standards for landfill . |
| 24 | She had been going up to admire her newly-painted room , but something took her to Jim 's door . |
| 25 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 26 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 27 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 28 | How long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 29 | So how long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 30 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |