had been coaxing
- past perfect progressive of coax.
Example Sentences
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In particular, he had been coaxing her into friendship with a wooden Japanese dragon which wound itself in awful yet most seductive coils all round the cabinet at the end of the room.
From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
She had been coaxing Lisbeth to go home.
From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher
I suspect him of letting out his belt a hole a day on this plethora of protein that I had been coaxing up the bean poles all the spring.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
I had been coaxing her half the morning, and she had promised me to say nothing.
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
In particular, he had been coaxing her into friendship with a wooden Japanese dragon which wound itself in awful yet most seductive coils round the cabinet at the end of the room.
From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
