Examples of 'had been dating' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been dating"

had been dating - This phrase is used in the past perfect tense to indicate that a couple was in a romantic relationship for a specific period of time leading up to a point in the past. It suggests that the dating occurred over a continuous or extended duration

How to use "had been dating" in a sentence

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had been dating
They had been dating for about a month.
The accused and the victim are or had been dating.
I had been dating all of them for a while.
They believe the two had been dating.
I had been dating you all along.
And how when they had been dating for a year.
Rowe had been dating a girl prior to being incarcerated.
I said yes because we had been dating for four years.
We had been dating for about six months.
Everything seemed so easy and natural as if we had been dating for years.
The two had been dating for about a year.
Miho told me that a girl from our class had been dating that guy.
They had been dating ever since.
Fadil was living with another woman he had been dating for over ten years.
She had been dating this guy for a while.

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Remember all the people you had been dating in the recent past.
Had been dating for a year when it happened.
Friends say that they had been dating for less than a month.
I had been dating this girl for a year.
It turns out the men had been dating the same woman.
He had been dating her for seven years.
Her son and the girl had been dating for over a year.
We had been dating for a year.
Lindsay was his girlfriend and they had been dating seriously for a few years.
I had been dating a lot of whites.
I recall the time that a couple told me they had been dating for a very lengthy time.
The couple had been dating for several years prior.
Tom wanted to know who Mary had been dating.
We had been dating for two years and were living together.
Evidence that he had been dating Lora.
I had been dating a young woman and it had been becoming serious.
Fadil and Layla had been dating for a while.
She had been dating a lawyer she met when they fought in court.
Tom did not want anyone to know that he had been dating Mary.
My friend had been dating his girlfriend for six years.
Must have been mad when you found out that Skye had been dating her professor.
We had been dating maybe a month.
Hurst works at the station and had been dating Parker for nine months.
They had been dating since they were in grade eight.
My girlfriend and I had been dating about a year.
You had been dating one of them and so they knew you.
Tom wondered how long John and Mary had been dating.
The pair had been dating for almost seven years.
Image caption Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp had been dating for three months.
They had been dating for four years before getting engaged.
And your grandfather and I had been dating for six years.
They had been dating for the past seven years.
By the time she died, we had been dating for two years.
They had been dating each other for several months.
I might have tried to steal him, if he had been dating anyone except you.

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