Example sentences of "[been] going [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cruel observers may remark that he 's been going downhill ever since . |
| 2 | He 's been going even longer than Johnny Carson and appearing on his show is a pleasurable experience , with great Irish hospitality thrown in . |
| 3 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 4 | Standards for incineration have been going up too — in many countries even faster than standards for landfill . |
| 5 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
| 6 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 7 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 8 | Among unbeaten schools , Monmouth have been going particularly well , with victories against Wycliffe College , 16-12 , Bristol GS , 14-6 and Bromsgrove , 7-4 . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 10 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 11 | ‘ What on earth 's been going on here , then ? ’ |
| 12 | My people ca n't afford to let it be known what 's been going on here . ’ |
| 13 | I think you 'd better tell me exactly what 's been going on here . ’ |
| 14 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 15 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 16 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |
| 17 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 18 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 19 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a ritual that 's been going on ever since the first detachment fom Lyneham came out here last December . |
| 21 | It 's created senior executives in water , gas and electricity , who have made a killing through massive pay rises , but they pall into insignificance , when you look at the scandal of the share allocations and what 's been going on there . |
| 22 | Mike , what , what 's been going on there today ? |
| 23 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 24 | One of the major problems for us , whichever Party 's in in control , and I think if Councillor had gone to the press after this report was done and , rather than trying to score points and saying it 's all because it 's lack of Government cash , if he 'd appli if he 'd said , let's all get together on this , let's try and solve the problem , the problem 's been going on indefinitely , let's try and s , he might have gained more credibility . |
| 25 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 26 | ‘ I laugh at this straight into paperback initiative , it 's been going on forever , ’ he says . |
| 27 | In the bigger world , the GATT talks seem to have been going on forever , with Downing Street promising for two years that the end was in sight . |
| 28 | The enclosure of open fields into the smaller fields that form our familiar world today , and the reclamation of the wild lands , had been going on intermittently and at a varying pace in every century . |
| 29 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 30 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |