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had been cabling
  • past perfect progressive of cable.

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Doria told Barbara that the editor had been cabling frenziedly.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

And now poor Pat was gone and Prime’s father had been cabling for him to return home; 312 but there was that awkward matter about the desertion.

From Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters by King, Charles