Example sentences of "'s [been] going [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 3 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 4 | When you come out of role to reflect on what 's been going on your questions might include : " What led you to believe the carpenter was nervous/hiding something from us ? " |
| 5 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 6 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 7 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |
| 8 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 9 | Erm , if he 's been going to er , erm , in the unlikely , er , twelve months , that it 's unlikely that he 's going to have more than twelve months to live . |
| 10 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 11 | he 's been going to bed too late ! |
| 12 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 13 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 14 | And of course I do n't know how long do n't know how long that one 's been going for , but obviously that 's another sort of problem in some way . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 17 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 18 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 19 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 20 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 21 | It 's been going for about two now |
| 22 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 23 | Yeah , that 's a very old make you know , that one 's been going for donkey years , but it 's those colours , I mean there 's at least , well with the o |
| 24 | Henry 's been going through the old ledgers but can not find any sign of a fiddle . |
| 25 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 26 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |
| 27 | He 's been going with her quite a while , though has he ? |
| 28 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 29 | Well , it 's been going in Oxford now for three years and it 's for people with disability and able bodied people , and with the current production we have which is being produced by Paul Newham , the people there have er suffered with M S and are visually impaired and er you know , various disabilities like that , plus able bodied people . |