Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 2 | Can anyone give me a brief update on what exactly has been going on in my absence , i.e. who is being sold and why ? |
| 3 | The story could n't possibly have been passed on by anyone else . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As the Young King wavered between the three alternatives of remaining dutifully at his father 's side , going to Jerusalem , or marching into Aquitaine , he was certainly tempted by messages from the rebels offering to recognize him as their Duke , but he may also have been egged on by Geoffrey of Brittany . |
| 6 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 7 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 8 | To Jonjo O'Neill , who a moment earlier had been plugging on towards a certain third place , this sign of weakness in Wayward Lad 's finishing effort offered remote but renewed hope : ‘ I suddenly saw he was tiring , ’ he reported later , ‘ and so did she . ’ |
| 9 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 10 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 11 | We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ . |