Example sentences of "had be going [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
| 3 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 4 | What Margaret had said earlier had been going through her mind over and over again . |
| 5 | She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles . |
| 6 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 7 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 8 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 9 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 10 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 11 | Janie 's distraught mother Angela Darling explained what had been going through her mind during the case : |
| 12 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 13 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 14 | Thomas Duff , who had been going about his business as a messenger boy when it was said that he ‘ nearly ran in to two gentlemen ’ , put up a stout defence in court . |
| 15 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 16 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 17 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 18 | The worst moment , apart from his father 's collapse while being helped to the toilet , had been going on stage on the night of his death , and hearing Lydia Dorinskaya say , ‘ All that lives must die , /Passing through Nature to eternity . ’ |
| 19 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 20 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 21 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 22 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 23 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 24 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 25 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 26 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 27 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 28 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 29 | ’ — and the Project had been going for so long , you see . |
| 30 | Now of course , in a , in a complete psychoanalysis , if Woodrow Wilson had been going for analysis , then all kinds of other aspects of his life and personality would have opened up . |