Example sentences of "have [adv] been going " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 2 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 3 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 4 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 5 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 6 | Online catalogue research at the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) has now been going on , mainly funded by the British Library Research and Development Department , for about five years . |
| 7 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 8 | Wardrobe , make-up , hair — it has n't been going well . |
| 9 | When the gloom lifts , Hungary 's famous pessimists will be surprised to discover how much has actually been going right . |
| 10 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 11 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 12 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 13 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 15 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 16 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 17 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 18 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 19 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 20 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 21 | In order to find out why things had not been going so well on the land as in the urban areas we must once again go back to the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 23 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 24 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |
| 25 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 26 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 27 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 28 | I 've just been going through it really , the textbook . |
| 29 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 30 | Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through . |