Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] going [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now .
3 What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ .
4 Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha
5 also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that .
6 We 've been going on like this for months .
7 erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time .
8 ‘ You see , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ we 've been assuming somebody is helping him and we 've been going round all his contacts .
9 I have you know I 've been going round and testing how many miles per galleon you can get out of it
10 We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up .
11 Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time
12 But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal .
13 ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’
14 All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through .
15 I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ?
16 It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures .
17 ‘ I know what you 've been going through , ’ he said gruffly .
18 I should n't have done that , but the man I 've been going out with is missing .
19 ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals .
20 I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea !
21 They 've been going out on and off for years . ’
22 " You 've been going out with him for ages , have n't you ? "
23 Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's
24 Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years
25 What you 've been going out seven weeks ?
26 You 've been going out with your
27 I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days !
28 ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years .
29 ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’
30 Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra .
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