had been drinking
- past perfect progressive of drink.
Example Sentences
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Cardiff Crown Court heard Beaumont's "demeanour changed" when they got home and he started cleaning, after the pair had been drinking together at a Wetherspoons pub in Monmouth in September 2025.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
According to the family, Diarra had been drinking a coffee outside the shelter when he encountered police officers and the situation deteriorated.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Prosecutors on Thursday asked to put Royce Clayton, a former baseball player who had been drinking with Grossman and Erickson that night, back on the witness stand to clarify his previous testimony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
“We figured he had maybe an hour left. He was very hypothermic and said he had been drinking a lot of salt water.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Peewee had been drinking a Coke; he started with a fit of laughter, and snorted the Coke out through his nose and all down the front of his T-shirt.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
