Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Later that day, he was harping on the issue again.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
He came to the sideline and it wasn’t like everybody was harping on it.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
Everybody was harping on about security and I think they put everything into that.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010
Continually he was harping on the friendship felt for the plaintiff.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
