Example sentences of "they have [be] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ship was n't even properly victualled for the crew : they 'd been going to take food on at Crete . |
| 2 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 3 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 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 | All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through . |
| 6 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 10 | They 've been going out on and off for years . ’ |
| 11 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 12 | Well I suppose ringing them up and telling them how they 've been going , how they 're galloping , how they do n't gallop . |
| 13 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 14 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 15 | They 've been going brilliantly . |
| 16 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 17 | Well it 's how long they 've been going , I suppose . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 20 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 21 | They have been going hammer-and-tongs since last July and the tour of Namibia . |
| 22 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 23 | They have been going to stay with Jack regularly for years , and the only thing that has changed is that Jack does n't need a sub any more . |
| 24 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |