Example sentences of "[adv] [been] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 2 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 5 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 6 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 7 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 8 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 9 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 10 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 11 | In order to find out why things had not been going so well on the land as in the urban areas we must once again go back to the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 13 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 14 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through . |
| 18 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 19 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 20 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 21 | The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ . |
| 22 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 26 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 27 | Online catalogue research at the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) has now been going on , mainly funded by the British Library Research and Development Department , for about five years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
| 30 | Wardrobe , make-up , hair — it has n't been going well . |