Example sentences of "it [vb past] been going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 3 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock . |
| 6 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |