had been conferring
- past perfect progressive of confer.
Example Sentences
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Then Braid, who had been conferring with lawyers, stepped into the waiting room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Peter DeBoer, in his first year as the Devils’ coach, said Sunday that he had been conferring with his predecessor, Jacques Lemaire, since training camp.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2012
He had been conferring with Denver’s athletic director, Peg Bradley-Doppes, about other candidates last summer, when she said to him, “What would it take to get you out here?”
From New York Times ● May 1, 2010
Only the sharp eyes of a visitor told them, on another occasion, that Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen had been conferring with the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this no mention is made of his having accompanied Egmont when he left the room where they had been conferring together.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
