Examples of 'he had been doing' in a sentence

Meaning of "he had been doing"

he had been doing - This phrase indicates that someone was engaged in a particular activity or behavior. It implies that the person was involved in an ongoing action or task

How to use "he had been doing" in a sentence

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he had been doing
Emma realizes what he had been doing in the bathroom.
Everyone in this troop knows what he had been doing.
As enquiring what he had been doing before he came thither.
I think there was a missing ingredient in what he had been doing.
Not that he had been doing much listening anyway.
He would not be able to do so if he had been doing easy training.
So clearly he had been doing this to other kids as well.
In three months he was swinging it like he had been doing it for a lifetime.
He had been doing that a lot in this conversation.
I would later learn that he had been doing competitions.
He had been doing many of the same things as your son.
They had no idea what he had been doing to me.
He had been doing that to me since.
It was obvious that he had been doing it for a while.
In other words he sent them out to do what he had been doing.

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I asked what he had been doing to the engine.
What he had done and what he had been doing.
He did exactly what he had been doing before the decree was issued.
Ero told them who he was and what he had been doing.
Or what he had been doing the night before.
He would freely admitted what he had been doing.
It was not known what he had been doing in the intervening two years.
Because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing.
He had been doing that for generations.
It is certainly better than what he had been doing in recent years.
He had been doing a great deal of this.
And then he asked him what he had been doing with himself.
What he had been doing before surgery.
He understood exactly what he had been doing to his wife.
He had been doing this for nearly half an hour.
For thirty years he had been doing this he said.
It took three men to replace him in the work he had been doing.
For many years he had been doing a solitary retreat in a cave in the mountains.
It was small compared to what he had been doing.
He had been doing this for countless years through the shifting of eras.
Nathan forgot what he had been doing.
He had been doing a lot of that.
So he had him bound and then inquired what he had been doing.
He never explained what he had been doing in those fifteen years.
He shook his head and turned back to what he had been doing.
He was asked what he had been doing for the last two or three years.
I sat back and reviewed what he had been doing.
He had been doing exercises.
Kelso jumped on that plane like he had been doing it all his life.
He had been doing and engaging in this type of behavior for a very long time.
His relatives did not know what he had been doing for these years.
As he had been doing since she came to see him three days earlier.
No one knows whether he had been doing it for a long time.
He also found it impossible to go back to doing what he had been doing.
He claims that he had been doing things of the similar kind since long now.

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