Example sentences of "have been going [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 2 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 4 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 5 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 6 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 8 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 9 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 10 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 11 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 13 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 14 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 15 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |