had been corresponding
- past perfect progressive of correspond.
Example Sentences
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A white ally of the Kellys on the Fair Housing Council, schoolteacher Harriet Glickman, had been corresponding with cartoonist Charles Schulz, urging him to add a Black character to his comic strip.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
Juanita Broaddrick had been corresponding with Lisa Myers for about a year when she finally agreed to sit for an interview.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2018
Murdoch does not appear to have realized just how close her fan in Atlanta had been to O’Connor—even though, by then, she and this fan had been corresponding for a decade or more.
From The New Yorker ● May 10, 2016
Unfortunately he had been corresponding with the physicist about A Brief History of Time, and sent it to him instead.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2015
He also would see Mrs. Clarke, with whom he had been corresponding for the past two years.
From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Thomas, Edward
