Example sentences of "[pron] have been going [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
2 | It 's had about ten or twelve names since I 've been going there , though some of them were just for one night , just for a party or celebration , and even then the name was never written up anywhere , you just had to know that tonight it was The Lily Pond , or The Jewel Box , The Gigolo , The Hustler , The Place ( no , I think that was somewhere else ) , Grave Charges ( I loved that one ) — or The You Know You Like It , I remember that year especially . |
3 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
6 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | You 've been going together quite a while . |
9 | 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 : |
10 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
11 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
12 | THE THIRD Test on the 1974–75 tour was at Sydney and everything had been going well . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | We have erm , managers of these funds who have a lot of expertise , a lot of experience , we 've been going over thirty years now , and we 've grown extremely quickly because of the expertise of our managers . |
15 | Especially when we 've been going well . |
16 | Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because |
17 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
18 | We 've been going together for ages . |
19 | As it is the hay and silage season , we had been going non-stop since dawn . |
20 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
21 | ‘ This one 's been going well . |
22 | They 've been going brilliantly . |
23 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
24 | ‘ It 's a business move and I am sorry to be leaving French rugby as it has been going well , ’ said Andrew . |
25 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
26 | It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock . |
27 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
28 | He had been going regularly , but out of courtesy . |
29 | He had been going there , to that area and … |
30 | Moorlake is much too big for her and it 's been going steadily to rack and ruin for years . |