Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 2 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 3 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 4 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 5 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 6 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 7 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 8 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 9 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 10 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 11 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 12 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 13 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 14 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 15 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 16 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |