Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 5 | Online catalogue research at the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) has now been going on , mainly funded by the British Library Research and Development Department , for about five years . |
| 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 | Wardrobe , make-up , hair — it has n't been going well . |
| 8 | When the gloom lifts , Hungary 's famous pessimists will be surprised to discover how much has actually been going right . |
| 9 | Liese said , ‘ I 'd better be going now . |
| 10 | We 'd better be going now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better be going then . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lowe knew the sects and the papers they churned out were going nowhere . |
| 14 | It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 18 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 19 | Duncan looked at his wrist watch , and rising to his feet said , ‘ I had better be going now , Piper . |
| 20 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 25 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 28 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 29 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 30 | 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 . |