Examples of 'had been going' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been going"
This phrase is in the past perfect continuous tense, indicating an action that was happening continuously in the past until a certain point
How to use "had been going" in a sentence
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had been going
And it had been going on for more than a year.
A neighborhood yard sale had been going on that day.
She had been going through some difficult times.
We made visible what had been going on in our country.
We had been going out for maybe two weeks.
My friend told me this had been going on for a while.
This had been going on for four or five days.
These unsavoury tactics had been going on for millennia.
It had been going on for some years.
This natural process had been going on for centuries.
It had been going downhill for ages.
Work on her current book had been going well.
My parents had been going through some rough times.
He wanted to know how long this had been going on.
Those abuses had been going on happily for years.
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Who knows how long this had been going on.
The practice had been going on for a number of years.
He asked how long the experiment had been going on.
This practice had been going on for some time.
It was the opposite of the chaos that had been going on.
We had no idea what had been going on in these camps.
I had been going around in circles with respect to retirement.
The demonstration had been going for several hours.
He had been going easy on him so as to make him surrender.
The investigation had been going on for a long time.
It would just keep going in the direction it had been going.
The arguing had been going on most of the night.
No one knew exactly how long it had been going on.
The observation had been going on for four months.
But she finally told me things that had been going on.
Millions of dollars had been going to the wrong place.
He had been going down the wrong path previously.
I had no idea what you had been going through.
But war had been going on for years elsewhere.
He considered the meeting had been going fairly well.
All had been going well until a week ago.
I wish that truck had been going faster.
They had been going out together for a couple of months.
The peace conference had been going on for four days.
I had been going out with her since high school.
I did not know you had been going through all this.
She had been going through a bit of a hard time lately.
It was that woman he had been going to see so often.
If he had been going any faster he could have killed you.
I knew what had been going on.
She had been going to pass on weekend it had been.
I was surprised to hear that he had been going to the church at all.
Things had been going so well before her friend became.
The hardening of their hearts had been going on for generations.
She had been going through a lot of money.
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