accomplish
verb (used with object)
to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish.
had been accomplishing
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past perfect progressiveof accomplish.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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When asked if he was amazed by what Beckham had been accomplishing without benefit of an off-season or a training camp, he replied: “I don’t think ‘amazed’ is the right word.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2014
When the lights went up again, spectators saw the instrument which had been accomplishing these wonders.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had been working, which meant that she had been accomplishing things, for Jane was a host in herself when it came to work.
From The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar by Janet Aldridge
We hauled up under it one of the hatches, and, sitting around it on blocks, had served up the turtle which had been accomplishing its destiny on board the canoa.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens
Or, why might not both be reinforced by the troops of La Noue, who had been accomplishing such exploits in Aunis and Saintonge?
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
