Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 4 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 5 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 8 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 9 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |