Example sentences of "have been going [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
2 | No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics |
3 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
4 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
5 | If Leslie had been going too fast the others would have told him to slow down . |
6 | Johnny had been going too fast and had slipped , badly cutting his knee . |
7 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
8 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
9 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | You 've been going together quite a while . |
13 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
14 | Among unbeaten schools , Monmouth have been going particularly well , with victories against Wycliffe College , 16-12 , Bristol GS , 14-6 and Bromsgrove , 7-4 . |
15 | ‘ He had been working well with Pat 's Jester at home and both have been going extremely well . ’ |
16 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
17 | He says that often in a benefit year , a player 's form suffers , but for me things have been going very well . |
18 | Cruel observers may remark that he 's been going downhill ever since . |
19 | He 's been going even longer than Johnny Carson and appearing on his show is a pleasurable experience , with great Irish hospitality thrown in . |
20 | ‘ Today 's been going really well . |