Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been going [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 2 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 7 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 8 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 9 | She 's been going around lately looking like death warmed up . ’ |
| 10 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |
| 11 | She 's been going out with him two or three year has n't she June ? |
| 12 | Anyway she 's been going out on and off for quite a while now . |
| 13 | She 's been going out with her boyfriend for a year today and they get on so well ! |
| 14 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |
| 15 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 16 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 17 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 20 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 22 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 23 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |
| 24 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 25 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 26 | You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose . |
| 27 | ‘ I laugh at this straight into paperback initiative , it 's been going on forever , ’ he says . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 29 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 30 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |