Example sentences of "[verb] [be] going on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 2 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 3 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 4 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 5 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 6 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 7 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 8 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 9 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 10 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 11 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 12 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 13 | I have an overwhelming feeling that these dances which have been going on unchanged for hundreds , perhaps thousands of years , are truer to the ‘ âme collective ’ than our restless , critical , self-obsessed quadrilles . |
| 14 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 15 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |