Example sentences of "[adv] be 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 suppose I 'd better be going then . ’
8 Duncan looked at his wrist watch , and rising to his feet said , ‘ I had better be going now , Piper .
9 Liese said , ‘ I 'd better be going now .
10 We 'd better be going now . ’
11 Just picking up on an item on page fourteen about the externalization programme that obviously is going straight through the process er and should be resolved in the next week or so .
12 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 .
13 And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living .
14 Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough .
15 Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out .
16 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 .
17 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 ’ .
18 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 .
19 So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something .
25 Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad
26 From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less .
27 Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States .
28 Morland says most of its tenants are meeting the sales targets but those landlords faced with fines say the lights on their pubs could soon be going out for good ..
29 Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back .
30 I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought …
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