Example sentences of "have [been] go [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 2 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 3 | Many people become biologists and doctors by a reaction against things mechanical and mathematical and contrariwise engineering has been going through a phase of rejecting natural materials . |
| 4 | How is it that , when this country has been going through a recession , which has been shared by countries throughout the world — not least the United States — our unemployment figures are lower than those of many other countries ? |
| 5 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 7 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 8 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 9 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 10 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 11 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 12 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 13 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 14 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 15 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 16 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 17 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 18 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
| 19 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 20 | According to the Crewe Programme , the Youth have been going through a rocky period . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 22 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 23 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 24 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 25 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |