Example sentences of "been go [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
2 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
3 | 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 |
4 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
6 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
9 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
10 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |