Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 2 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You 'd best be getting back to your own house now . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 8 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 9 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 10 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 14 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 15 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 16 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 17 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 18 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 19 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 20 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 21 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 22 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 23 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're absolutely delighted with the statement because people have definitely been holding back on buying cars , ’ says Ian . |
| 25 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |