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had been belonging
  • past perfect progressive of belong.

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Brede Olsen has rented the house; an outbuilding it had been, belonging to the storekeeper, but done up now with two sitting-rooms and two bedrooms; none so bad, and in a good situation.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut