Examples of 'had been hunting' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been hunting"

had been hunting: This phrase implies past continual action of pursuing and capturing wild animals for food or sport. It indicates that the hunting activity was ongoing or had been occurring for a period leading up to a specific point in the past

How to use "had been hunting" in a sentence

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had been hunting
And if i had been hunting and had my gun.
He was killed by a wild beast he had been hunting.
They had been hunting and were cleaning the rifles.
It seems that he had been hunting a bear.
He had been hunting that day.
Neither party owned the land on which they had been hunting.
Ashe had been hunting tonight.
She brought over a party of men who had been hunting wild hogs.
They had been hunting to the south for a full week.
They begged me to kill him and ifI had been hunting and had my gun.
Police had been hunting the pair since the end of last week.
But let me tell you, the others had been hunting it for hours.
They had been hunting for Gullu since the riots.
Vincent signed to Capitol, which had been hunting for its own Elvis-type singer.
They had been hunting the Doctor for years to no avail.

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I know Adam had been hunting for it.
They had been hunting in the Black Hills and had a pass from the agency.
One day when Esau had been hunting he came home very hungry.
We had been hunting you for some time, Nino.
Large track, and had been hunting for a week by himself.
If I had been hunting and had my gun, I would have done it without a second thought.
After all, the government had been hunting bin Laden all those years, right?
And if I had been hunting and had my gun They begged me to kill him.
And find out who had been hunting in the woods over the past few days.
If Mark had been hunting me in the plane, I would have had nowhere to hide.
Until now, Mark and I had been hunting together, while Ryan went solo.
I had been hunting them forever!
The Russian had been hunting me, hired by Al-Qaeda.
U-44 had been hunting for Ekatontarchos Dracoulis for the past 6 hours.

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