beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
had been beseeching
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past perfect progressiveof beseech.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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Doubtless the mother had thought that he was again in the power of Tarzan of the Apes, and she had been beseeching him to return her balu to her.
From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Her head was bowed in the lap of her Maker as if she had been beseeching Him always.
From Christmas Outside of Eden by Coningsby Dawson
Her ladyship had been bothering him about the poor boy, as she called her son, now that she learned he was in distress; and had been beseeching him to increase his allowance.
From The Kellys and the O'Kellys by Anthony Trollope
Godwin, as usual now, had been beseeching for money, and then, feeling his dignity wounded by the effort, retaliated on the giver with haughtiness and insulting demands.
From Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti
