Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] been going [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
2 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
3 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
4 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
5 | Well never can he and er the other partners with er the plant hire that 's been going for donkey 's ages and never shows a profit . |