Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Unbuild it, and they will come: Salmon have been storming back ever since Elwha Dam was blasted out of the way in March 2012.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2014
"I have had no opportunity to take his part, Richard," his wife said quietly; "you have been storming without interruption since you came in five minutes ago, and I have not uttered a single word."
From The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He was a queer man, a professor who ought to have been a pirate, a man who lectured in class rooms when he ought to have been storming walled cities or robbing banks.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
