Example sentences of "been go [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 3 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 4 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 5 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 6 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 7 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 8 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 9 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 10 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 11 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 12 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 13 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 14 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 16 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 17 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 18 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 20 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 21 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 22 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 23 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 24 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 25 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 26 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 27 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 28 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 29 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 30 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |