Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] go [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 2 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 3 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 4 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 5 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 6 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 7 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 8 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 9 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 10 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 11 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 12 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 13 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 14 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 15 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 16 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 17 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 18 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 19 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 20 | It 's been going on for months |
| 21 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 22 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 23 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |
| 24 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 25 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 26 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |
| 27 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |