Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] going for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 3 | Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start . |
| 4 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 7 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 8 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 9 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 10 | It 's been going for about two now |