Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] going [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
2 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
3 | I 'd been going out burgling , like . |
4 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
5 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
6 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
7 | I have you know I 've been going round and testing how many miles per galleon you can get out of it |
8 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
9 | I should n't have done that , but the man I 've been going out with is missing . |
10 | ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals . |
11 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
12 | I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days ! |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
17 | ‘ I have been going out of my mind thinking about you . ’ |
18 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
19 | I have been going out with him for three months . |
20 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
21 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
22 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
23 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
24 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
25 | ‘ I know what you 've been going through , ’ he said gruffly . |
26 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
27 | " You 've been going out with him for ages , have n't you ? " |
28 | What you 've been going out seven weeks ? |
29 | You 've been going out with your |
30 | You 've been going together quite a while . |