Example sentences of "had been go [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 3 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 4 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 5 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 6 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 9 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 10 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 13 | Japanese emigrants had been going abroad since the 1880s , the majority of them to Hawaii , then an independent kingdom . |