Examples of 'had been using' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been using"

'Had been using' is the past perfect continuous tense of the verb 'use'. It indicates that someone was actively engaged in using or employing something during a specific period in the past

How to use "had been using" in a sentence

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had been using
He had been using them for over a year.
The students had been using this.
She had been using rats as test subjects.
He was agitated and clearly had been using narcotics.
I had been using a free stats provider before.
Her fiancé had been using the car.
I had been using too simple a model of the universe.
But she did not know he had been using it.
The boy had been using these drugs.
Hundreds of residents and hotel guests had been using it.
Some soldiers had been using fowling pieces.
They were expelled from the land they had been using.
That they had been using till now.
Had been using this phone for about three weeks.
He said she had been using marijuana.

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I had been using them fairly regularly as my only portable machine.
Abigail found that he had been using magic.
We had been using a different one before.
He looked like he had been using drugs.
Shana had been using us as target practice for months.
He was holding a rake he had been using out in the garden.
He had been using subcutaneous injections of creosote for tuberculosis.
All the time she had been using contraception.
I had been using that strip.
He stopped using words that he had been using before.
They had been using a large staff to do that manually.
That they had been using.
We had been using the white bag.
Stefanyuk admitted he had been using drugs at the time.
I had been using several migration tools.
I believe all of them had been using a basal dose of steroids.
I had been using a custom start up.
After realizing that they had been using incorrect.
Ellen had been using on the side.
We were looking for another manufacturer to replace the one we had been using.
Both women had been using the description professionally.
She said the plastic bag he had been using ripped again.
If she had been using a numeric key.
He murdered the agent who had been using the device.
He had been using her problems to gain her trust.
The officer then asked McCarty whether he had been using intoxicants.
The hens had been using the dog carrier as.
At least twenty members of a protest that had been using the slogan were arrested.
He had been using drugs and beat me very severely.
Behavioral he had been using.
He had been using hypnosis for diagnosis.
They did not want anyone to know that the company had been using it.
He had been using the machine the day before.
Many of the people who fell ill had been using cannabis products.
He had been using drugs since the age of twelve.

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