had been bricking

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of brick.
  brick

  noun

  a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the United States, a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 centimeters), red, brown, or yellow in color.

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had been bricking

I had been bricking up the furnace all the morning, and I sat down by these possessions dead beat.

From The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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