Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
| 2 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
| 3 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 4 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 5 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 6 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 7 | He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair . |
| 8 | She had been going to set it loose in case it got too tame to fend for itself . |
| 9 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 10 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 11 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 12 | She looked at him before going on , for she had been going to say , ‘ beat you up , ’ but she could n't imagine anyone attempting to beat this young fellow up . |
| 13 | She checked herself , for she had been going to say : ‘ When you and Jack were married . ’ |
| 14 | She had been going up to admire her newly-painted room , but something took her to Jim 's door . |
| 15 | There had been the slightest tremor in Alice 's voice ; she had been going to say , " We all spent the evening " but remembered in time that " all " might not be prepared to stick their necks out for Jim , if " all " could be reached and warned in time . |
| 16 | Here she bit a potato , because she had been going to say ‘ close friends ’ but had thought better of it . |
| 17 | That was what she had been going to say . |
| 18 | Of course , if she had been going to get there in time for the beginning , she should have rushed back straight away , out upset at such times was the very worst thing for her mother and it would upset her to think that Peony wanted to go out immediately she 'd got in . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 20 | Penelope hesitated , hardly remembering where she had been going . |
| 21 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 22 | She had been going to say ‘ potential ’ but felt it might sound patronising . |
| 23 | Let's call it off , she had been going to say — believing , maybe , she could manage it . |
| 24 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 26 | She had been going to take a walk around Mariánské Láznë , had n't she , so a three mile walk or so up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home would n't be so difficult , would it ? |
| 27 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |
| 28 | She 's been going to move for months . " |
| 29 | She 's been going around lately looking like death warmed up . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |