Example sentences of "[been] going [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
4 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
5 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
6 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
7 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |