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
While Coligny had been accomplishing his wonderful march round France, La Noue, who had been exchanged for Strozzi, had betaken himself to La Rochelle.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
