Example sentences of "have [adv] been going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
2 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
3 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
4 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
5 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
6 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
7 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
8 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
9 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
10 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
11 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
12 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
13 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
14 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
15 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
16 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
17 | If things have n't been going well at work and success seems to be passing you by talk to colleague and see what they think of your prospects . |