Example sentences of "been going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 2 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 3 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 4 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 5 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
| 7 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 8 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 9 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 10 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 11 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 14 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 15 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 19 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 20 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 21 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 22 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 24 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 25 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 26 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 27 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's been going on between you and Guy , Virgie , darling ? |
| 29 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 30 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |