Examples of 'had been reading' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been reading"
Had been reading is a past perfect continuous tense phrase that indicates the action of reading that was ongoing in the past before another event or point in time. It is commonly used to describe a past activity that continued for an extended duration
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had been reading
Claimed people had been reading her papers.
He had been reading his speedometer in kilometres an hour.
Explain the passage you had been reading.
I had been reading for an hour when he came in.
John aald that he had been reading.
He had been reading it some five weeks.
Open letter that he had been reading.
I had been reading a letter when he came in.
Like you had been reading.
I had been reading the newspaper for two hours.
What she had been reading.
I had been reading the section on madder.
He dropped the newspaper he had been reading.
I could have had been reading the newspapers.
He pointed to the young man who had been reading.
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Many of you had been reading my blog lately.
Suggested by the extraordinary history he had been reading.
I had been reading a wonderful book in the same style.
And the other students had been reading.
He had been reading a book about UFOs.
You read as though you had been reading for years.
I had been reading all day.
Jae griped putting down the magazine he had been reading.
He had been reading a comic book.
It was late at night and she had been reading for sometime.
I had been reading for an hour.
It appeared that he had been reading it.
I had been reading a book for some time when he called.
An image came to him from a story he had been reading.
I had been reading a book for about an hour when he came in.
Where he had been reading.
He had been reading for two hours when she came in.
But then he thought of a book he had been reading about some experiments.
Holly had been reading cards for me for a few months.
The man spoke while closing the book he had been reading.
The manuscript he had been reading had fallen to the ground.
Justin rose from the sofa where he had been reading.
I had been reading for a moment or so when an odd thing happened.
Saw the stories you had been reading on the internet.
I had been reading a letter.
I popped my head across the door in which he had been reading it.
It was as if he had been reading my thoughts the whole time.
The students selected books that they had been reading.
Kate had been reading.
He recognizes one of them from the magazine he had been reading.
Josh had been reading it.
Then you have to look for the page you had been reading.
She had been reading about the work we were doing in a small magazine or something.
She acquired a recipe from a magazine that she had been reading.
I had been reading a magazine for some time when she came.
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