Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] been go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 2 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 3 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 4 | No , no , but , bearing up , I mean they were made before his teeth were taken out , his plates had been gone , and they just add it , the , the extra teeth to it and they did n't know that it , it had n't , you know , taken all the rest of the teeth out , it was then going to be further up in his mouth |
| 5 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 6 | Eachuinn Odhar had been busy with Father Patrick , dictating letters to all parts ; the Abbot of Iona ; the king 's court in Edinburgh ; even Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , at Inveraray ; messages had been going and coming in almost daily by boat and weary runner . |
| 7 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 8 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 9 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 10 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 11 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 12 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 13 | The way things had been going she could hardly be that . |
| 14 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 15 | The men had been gone several weeks , and when we appeared on the beach , the bear was probably expecting us to produce food . |
| 16 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 17 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 18 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 19 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 20 | Japanese emigrants had been going abroad since the 1880s , the majority of them to Hawaii , then an independent kingdom . |
| 21 | The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave . |
| 22 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 25 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |