Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been going up to admire her newly-painted room , but something took her to Jim 's door . |
| 2 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |
| 3 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 4 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 5 | As it is the hay and silage season , we had been going non-stop since dawn . |
| 6 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 7 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 8 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 9 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 10 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock . |
| 13 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 14 | He had been going regularly , but out of courtesy . |
| 15 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 16 | All right , O.K. , he had been going on long enough on these lines . |
| 17 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 18 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 19 | He had been going out intermittently with our Corporal Jane , who was beginning to get very excited about him , and I must admit he was very good-looking . |
| 20 | He had been going there , to that area and … |