Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 2 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 3 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 4 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 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 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 7 | A cheerful Durie confirmed : ‘ Things have been going well for me and Spurs in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 9 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 10 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 11 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 12 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 13 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 14 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 15 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 16 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 17 | Japanese emigrants had been going abroad since the 1880s , the majority of them to Hawaii , then an independent kingdom . |
| 18 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 19 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 20 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 21 | Those discussions have been going on with everyone involved . |
| 22 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 23 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 24 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |