classify
verb (used with object)
to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
had been classifying
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past perfect progressiveof classify.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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Hope, whose previous job had been classifying 147 ancient hedgerows in south Dorset, falls in love with John's billowing dreams: "What I want to do," he says, "is write the geometry of a wave."
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