Examples of 'i had been doing' in a sentence

Meaning of "i had been doing"

i had been doing ~ past tense phrase indicating that an action or activity was done continuously or repeatedly up to a certain point in the past

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

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i had been doing
I had been doing forced labour for four years.
They threatened to tell cartesian what i had been doing.
I had been doing my own research and following it up.
Up until that point was I had been doing a lot of research on my grandfather.
I had been doing this for many years.
I thought it would be easy to just continue doing things the way I had been doing.
I had been doing some heavy lifting at work.
Up until this point I had been doing pretty well.
I had been doing intensive laboratory tests for over a year.
I had no idea the damage I had been doing to myself.
I had been doing lectures and workshops on communication and relationships.
You would not believe what I had been doing.
I had been doing genealogical research on my ancestors.
It connected everything that I had been doing up until now.
I had been doing it for a long time as a side thing.

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I learned a lot about what I had been doing wrong.
I had been doing vegetable farming and everyone knew me for it in this area.
I planted my right foot just like I had been doing.
I had been doing it alone anyway.
This is something that I had been doing as a kid.
I had been doing some modeling and dating this guy for a while.
I responded that I had been doing the usual.
I had been doing my best to pay off that credit line.
It was something I had been doing since my teen years.
I had been doing everything by myself for a long time in life and needed to rest.
Little did they know that I had been doing it for so long.
I had been doing a FOIA request in a completely different case.
I had to do what I had been doing with Joseph all along.
I had been doing Pilates and yoga for six months.
I thought that I had been doing a good job.
I had been doing it every Friday with ALS for a year.
I became aware of what I had been doing to myself.
And I had been doing the ads for almost seven years.
The client asked how long I had been doing this.
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college.
I had to find roles that were different from what I had been doing.
I wish what I had been doing as a teenager was online.
It was a natural outgrowth of what I had been doing.
What I had been doing before was simply playing legato and pedaling through.
The next day felt like I had been doing this sport for years.
And I had been doing a little bit of low carb baking before that.
That night at church God dealt with me about all that I had been doing.
I now realize that I had been doing it for all the wrong reasons.
I started working for the substance abuse program I had been doing outreach for.
Never knew before that I had been doing reaching wrong all these years.
I had been doing Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians.
I showed the group what I had been doing and got a fantastic reception.
I had been doing The King of Queens for five years.
I was riding the trains like I had been doing it for years.
I knew that I needed to do something radically different than what I had been doing.

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