Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [been] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the luck had been going our way recently . |
| 2 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 5 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 6 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 10 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 11 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 12 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | ’ — and the Project had been going for so long , you see . |
| 15 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 16 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 17 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 18 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |