Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be go [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back .
2 His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period .
3 Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution .
4 The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again .
5 Many people become biologists and doctors by a reaction against things mechanical and mathematical and contrariwise engineering has been going through a phase of rejecting natural materials .
6 According to the Crewe Programme , the Youth have been going through a rocky period .
7 How is it that , when this country has been going through a recession , which has been shared by countries throughout the world — not least the United States — our unemployment figures are lower than those of many other countries ?
8 They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up .
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