Example sentences of "had [adv] been go [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
2 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The mechanisms for registering and resolving a conflict via the United Nations , which would apply in this situation , had not been gone through by the general . |
6 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
7 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |