Example sentences of "[pron] had been go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 2 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 3 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 4 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 5 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 6 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |