construct
verb (used with object)
had been constructing
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past perfect progressiveof construct.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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But still I had been constructing things around that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
She had been constructing a model of a skeleton for a school biology project that term.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021
As a result, Pentagon number crunchers had been constructing a budget blueprint for fiscal year 2020 of $733 billion, to reflect that three to five percent increase.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2018
“We had been constructing a new image for the country ... and we felt were really reaching the point where Nicaragua had started to become an emerging tourist destination,” Valenti said.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2018
He saw the edifice which he had been constructing his whole life, sink into the ground before him.
From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Felix Dahn
