Examples of 'had been building' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been building"
had been building: This phrase suggests the gradual development, progression, or accumulation of something over a period of time. It often implies a process of growth, construction, or establishment
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had been building
That my entire life had been building up to.
Gas had been building up in that little space.
The pressure had been building.
He had been building it all his life.
Events leading to the coup had been building up for months.
They had been building classic cars for years.
Hopes for a breakthrough on the deadlocked disarmament agenda had been building.
Such fears had been building for years.
There could be no mistake about this because it had been building up for weeks.
The crisis had been building for three years.
It was an inexcusable act of aggression that had been building up for many years.
The unrest had been building for several weeks.
Glazier spoke of the political divisions that had been building for some years.
Tensions had been building to an explosive level.
Dissatisfaction with the royal family had been building for a long time.
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Pressure had been building for more than four years.
There is no doubt that the momentum she had been building was forced to a stop.
The buzz had been building for quite some time.
A mood of increasingly radical anticlericalism had been building for more than a generation.
They had been building a ship in their backyard for years.
Since the racial tensions which produced it had been building steadily throughout the war.
It had been building up for some days and at last it had broken.
And an animosity that had been building was finally acted out.
She had just come from the lodge she and her husband had been building.
The storm had been building up.
It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up.
But that tension had been building for some time.
He took a slow, deep breath to relax the tension that had been building inside.
The marshals had been building a case against him for a while.
They laughed together, easing the tension that had been building in the room.
We had been building a team.
She could not ignore the longing that had been building in her heart any longer.
Villegas had been building toward a moment like this in the last few months.
She knew that Eve and I had been building a case.
It had been building up between him and Chuck.
As though my entire day had been building up to this very moment.
It had been building for a while, looking back.
And the centrifugal forces that had been building up have today got the upper hand.
Melinda found herself in a massive construction site, a home Bill had been building.
Yet the underlying tensions that had been building over nearly two decades remained unresolved.
With a new baby, Melinda found herself in a massive construction site, a home Bill had been building.
Like one that DOSA had been building all along.
Tensions had been building in Derry for over a year before the Battle of the Bogside.
For a while, things had been building up.
Wiesenthal had been building a case against von Braun for years.
All week long, strange tensions had been building in the house.
That hope had been building over the last few weeks around Rodneyâs case.
However, pressures for reform had been building up for some time.
Local industry had been building with the expectation that Clarksville would become a major trading hub.
Each was aware, too, that he had lost something that had been building between them.
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