Example sentences of "have been going [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 .
2 Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 .
3 However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : —
4 Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music .
5 For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world .
6 Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point .
7 I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between .
8 In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time .
9 With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed .
10 Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States .
11 But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal .
12 Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas .
13 ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’
14 I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days !
15 Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 .
16 Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation .
17 Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November .
18 Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down .
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