Example sentences of "had been going to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |
| 2 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 3 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 4 | William Rees , 61 , a consultant ophthalmic surgeon , of Tonteg , Mid Glamorgan , had been going to the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend , where a patient was already under anaesthetic , when police stopped him . |
| 5 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 6 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 7 | Whitlock had been going to Le Chantilly restaurant on East 57th Street since he had first arrived in New York in 1980 . |
| 8 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 9 | He had been going to France , she recalled . |