Example sentences of "[vb past] been go [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between .
6 But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never .
7 Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother .
8 The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth .
9 The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties .
10 For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain .
11 With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed .
12 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 .
13 After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about .
14 The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ .
15 Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days .
16 It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest .
17 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 .
18 The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning .
19 A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months .
20 These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe .
21 For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages .
22 The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days .
23 In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries .
24 I thought this phone call had been going on for hours .
25 The argument had been going on for some time .
26 She said it had been going on for a few months . ’
27 Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it .
28 The affair had been going on for nearly two years .
29 Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex .
30 Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) .
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