bide
verb (used with object)
to endure; bear.
had been biding
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past perfect progressiveof bide.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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Last year he found a perfect fit at Alabama, where he lined up opposite Metchie, who also had been biding his time behind future NFL receivers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Mao's wife, the ferociously radical Jiang Qing, had been biding her time to get at Deng.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had been biding the time when she should have this excuse for going there.
From Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
The Béarnais had been biding his time—"crouching to spring": but that slap in the face set him on fire.
From Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
For two months they had been biding their time, and the plebiscite told them it had come.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
