Example sentences of "been going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's been going on between you and Guy , Virgie , darling ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 16 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 17 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 18 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 19 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 20 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 21 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 22 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 23 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 24 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 25 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 26 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |
| 27 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 28 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 29 | You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose . |
| 30 | It has been going on for too long . |