alter
verb (used with object)
to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify.
had been altering
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past perfect progressiveof alter.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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Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert admitted during a December hearing that his staff had been altering his page every night over a span of two weeks.
From Slate ● May 28, 2019
Some of the firm's traders also had been altering Libor to benefit their own trading positions as far back as 2005.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2012
In furious haste the Service men had been altering the controls of the dirigible atomic torpedoes, so that they would respond to ultra-wave control; and, few in number though they were, each was highly effective.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
In furious haste the Secret Service men had been altering the controls of the radio-dirigible torpedoes, so that they would respond to ultra-wave control; and, few in number though they were, each was highly effective.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Meanwhile, Vasari turned his attention to one of the legs of the Christ, which Michael Angelo had been altering.
From Michael Angelo Buonarroti by Charles Holroyd
