Example sentences of "[been] going [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All right , O.K. , he had been going on long enough on these lines . |
| 32 | Yeah , mi mind you , though , if Pete does it with everyone , then it 's a change to what 's been going on usually , it would be nice for a change . |
| 33 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 34 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 35 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 36 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 37 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 38 | it 's been going on now for what ? |
| 39 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 40 | She 's been going around lately looking like death warmed up . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Today 's been going really well . |
| 42 | The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since . |
| 43 | while you 've been swearing and that been going ever so , police 'll be round tomorrow |
| 44 | You 've been going together quite a while . |
| 45 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 46 | ‘ He had been working well with Pat 's Jester at home and both have been going extremely well . ’ |
| 47 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 48 | If Leslie had been going too fast the others would have told him to slow down . |
| 49 | Johnny had been going too fast and had slipped , badly cutting his knee . |
| 50 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 51 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 52 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 53 | He had been going out intermittently with our Corporal Jane , who was beginning to get very excited about him , and I must admit he was very good-looking . |
| 54 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 55 | We were so easy with each other , we could have been going out together . |
| 56 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 57 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 58 | In order to find out why things had not been going so well on the land as in the urban areas we must once again go back to the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 59 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 60 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |