Example Sentences

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She had been correcting social studies papers and had just finished reading Noah Gershom's essay on the First Amendment when the thought flew into her head.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Then Miss Brown shoved back the test papers she had been correcting and glanced at the clock.

From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell

He had been correcting mistakes ever since Maximilian’s landing.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)

“He said, sir, his work was so particular that after he had been correcting for twelve hours his eyes and mind were exhausted, and he could not do his work properly.”

From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville

He had been correcting proofs to catch the post, and wore the look of a man abstracted, faintly contemptuous of other forms of life.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John