Examples of 'had been getting' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been getting"
The phrase 'had been getting' is the past perfect progressive tense of the verb 'get.' It indicates a continuous action or state that occurred in the past up until a specific point or event. It implies that the person or subject had been experiencing or acquiring something gradually or over a period of time leading up to a particular moment or situation
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had been getting
One of the officers had been getting on my back.
He had been getting tattoos since he turned twenty.
And also my sister had been getting fat.
Elena had been getting letters for years.
Apparently this detective had been getting calls.
Martin had been getting threatening phone calls.
I had been wondering why my snack bag had been getting so light so quickly.
Lyle had been getting these threats in the mail.
The main problem had been getting there.
He had been getting treatment for a long time.
My first problem had been getting noticed.
I had been getting ill more and more frequently.
My immune system had been getting worse.
He had been getting death threats for quite some time.
The bottles had been getting tall.
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He had been getting the police dog out when he had heard a pistol shot.
I asked her if she had been getting enough sleep.
Not too shabby for one thing we did not even know we had been getting.
And the boy had been getting selected.
Her mother knew that the two of them had been getting close.
Jerusalem had been getting more and more religious.
Some say that the trial would have succeeded if patients had been getting suboptimal care.
Flex had been getting second.
And she had mentioned that she had been getting them for a while.
Arizona had been getting a lot of rain around the time of my immersion experience.
I really missed him and had been getting hornier all week.
I had been getting it dyed for a year and it was basically blonde all over.
Recently my laptop had been getting slower and slower.
I had been getting the Brazilian treatment for a few years.
He said the best thing so far had been getting dressed up in his suit.
Matt had been getting this tank ready since June.
I told him how the condition had been getting worse each winter.
He had been getting frequent requests from different aristocrats to elevate the Catholic religion.
She harbors a mild jealousy of the attention that Rosie had been getting at school.
Nasser had been getting second.
I would do editing work that I had been getting freelance.
Kevin had been getting second.
I drove all night thinking about how Marc and I had been getting so close.
They had been getting high.
Figured I would look around to see if Kate had been getting any death threats.
His mother had been getting close to the flame.
Since I can remember but lately they had been getting a lot worse.
The government had been getting these strange complaints about the asylum.
I mean, my whole life they had been getting high.
Her family had been getting ready to drive her to a school bus stop.
Because one… one of the officers had been getting on my back.
I know I had been getting on her nerves.
They talked about anything and everything, and had been getting along well.
He and Laura had been getting so close lately.
And Bobby made the phone ca! They had been getting high.
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Then we knew we had the wrong guy
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