Example sentences of "had been go [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |