Examples of 'had been sitting' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been sitting"
The phrase 'had been sitting' is the past perfect continuous tense of the verb 'sit.' It indicates an action that started in the past, continued for some time, and was still ongoing at a specific point in the past. This tense is used to describe an action that happened before another past action or time
How to use "had been sitting" in a sentence
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had been sitting
He had been sitting in this very same armchair.
Never mind that she had been sitting on it.
He had been sitting in his car since midnight.
The hired man had been sitting on.
Had been sitting around the fire nekkid.
After they had been sitting for two.
Had been sitting a few years.
It tasted like it had been sitting there.
She had been sitting in the therapy room.
Beds looking as if someone had been sitting on them.
I guess he had been sitting outside waiting on her.
Half of the chair in which he had been sitting was also.
He also had been sitting in the back seat.
I got up from the park bench where we had been sitting.
Sam had been sitting there all morning.
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Imagine if you had been sitting in it.
All had been sitting in the front three cars.
It was the man who had been sitting at the table.
I had been sitting by the pool.
The goldmine that it had been sitting on no longer exists.
He had been sitting on these jokes since he started comedy.
Three women had been sitting there.
I had been sitting in the woods for hours.
The child had been sitting.
We had been sitting in silence for an hour.
That was a song that had been sitting around for a while.
It had been sitting in her pocket the whole time.
I felt as if something heavy that had been sitting on my chest was finally gone.
He had been sitting next to the man.
The passengers had been sitting.
As if we had been sitting next to each other for years.
He reminded me that on that day we had been sitting on a bench in a park.
As they had been sitting such a long time they.
There was no sign that someone had been sitting there recently.
The dogs had been sitting patiently long enough.
Willem stood up from the wooden crate he had been sitting on.
The dryer had been sitting there.
We walked up to where the two men had been sitting.
He stated we had been sitting on our hands.
Rick extended a hand towards the bench he had been sitting on.
The letter had been sitting on my desk for a week.
Tom had no idea how long he had been sitting there.
It had been sitting on the table for weeks now.
Where they had been sitting.
He had been sitting up all night.
It was the pretty woman who had been sitting behind him.
If he had been sitting on the edge of the bed.
He got off the exam table he had been sitting on.
Maybe she had been sitting here too long.
It even included a diagram that showed where each passenger had been sitting.
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It was almost like sitting inside a huge lamp
Sitting on endless committees to help poor musicians
We have been sitting out there for a while
