Example sentences of "[vb past] been going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 4 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 5 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 6 | 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 . |