Examples of 'had been doing' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been doing"
This phrase is used to indicate that an action or activity was ongoing or in progress in the past, before another event or point in time
How to use "had been doing" in a sentence
Basic
Advanced
had been doing
If you really had been doing something with my superior.
You promised to show me what you had been doing.
Peter had been doing small parties for years.
They had to do as they had been doing in the past.
If you had been doing the maintenance on this boat.
Everyone in this troop knows what he had been doing.
Chayse had been doing well at school.
I think there was a missing ingredient in what he had been doing.
Emma realizes what he had been doing in the bathroom.
So we had been doing a lot of preparation for that exhibition.
Numerous manufacturers had been doing this at the time.
They had been doing this throughout the ceremony.
And explaining what she had been doing instead.
What we had been doing really was not working for us.
I would later learn that he had been doing competitions.
See also
I had been doing forced labour for four years.
As enquiring what he had been doing before he came thither.
We had been doing some modeling prior to the competition.
The good work it had been doing came to an end.
I had been doing my own research and following it up.
He would not be able to do so if he had been doing easy training.
If you had been doing your duty.
I asked how long they had been doing this.
You had been doing good at first.
It was a complete reaction to everything we had been doing up to that point.
Not that he had been doing much listening anyway.
Much like my brother had been doing.
So clearly he had been doing this to other kids as well.
They found out what the stationmaster had been doing.
She had been doing her reading.
What the mare had been doing.
Mike had been doing some background work.
I do not know what she had been doing here either.
Lyle had been doing research all day.
It was obvious that he had been doing it for a while.
I had been doing this for many years.
I was doing what female mammals had been doing for thousands of years.
She had been doing this ever since they returned.
Eight other jurors had been doing the same thing.
He had been doing that a lot in this conversation.
I asked what he had been doing to the engine.
I had been doing some heavy lifting at work.
He did exactly what he had been doing before the decree was issued.
Had been doing today since they were already administrative simplification by.
Not if you had been doing your job.
What he had done and what he had been doing.
What they had been doing is certainly evil.
They had no idea what he had been doing to me.
His brother had been doing everything possible to get extradition.
In three months he was swinging it like he had been doing it for a lifetime.
You'll also be interested in:
Examples of using Doing
Show more
I spent my whole life doing things my own way
And in so doing seal a bond of enduring friendship between us
Because the consequences of doing so might be more extreme
Examples of using Had
Show more
Had she dreamed of the garden so often
Then we knew we had the wrong guy
We had so much fun up on the mountain today
