had been concocting
- past perfect progressive of concoct.
Example Sentences
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For 13 years people had been concocting increasingly bizarre explanations for those mysterious circles and lines pressed into the grain fields of southern England.
From Time Magazine Archive
The weekly will support and expound the New Deal's politics and economics "in plain square-toed English,'"' according to Publisher Astor who said he and Dr. Moley had been concocting the magazine for months.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was of a kind which Langholm had been concocting for many years.
From The Shadow of the Rope by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
The learned professor has given the various symptoms of the queen's malady with as curious a minuteness as if he had been concocting a medical report.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
It is quite evident that Rawleigh had been tampered with by the silly Cobham, whose ricketty brains had been concocting a crude, fantastic plot, which was hardly the initial of one.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
