Example sentences of "[vb past] been going [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted .
2 Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind .
3 But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster .
4 We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend .
5 He had been going out intermittently with our Corporal Jane , who was beginning to get very excited about him , and I must admit he was very good-looking .
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