believe
verb (used without object)
to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
had been believing
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past perfect progressiveof believe.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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But when a day of heavy and insupportable calamity came upon me, and I was made to look after the foundations of what I had been believing, I found there were none.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by William Ware
I had been believing as long as I could remember, but did not seem to grow in the image of God.
From Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
She was one believing in something, she was one believing in working and marrying and having children and believing in all that she had been believing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
She was one then believing what she had been believing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
She believed then in what she had been believing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
