had been encamping
- past perfect progressive of encamp.
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They had been encamping here for about three hours, and were already deliberating about a night journey, when Claude came up.
From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by De Mille, James
Sulla, who with his troops had been encamping near Nola in Campania, marched upon the city, and for the first time a Consul entered Rome at the head of his legions.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Pennell, Robert Franklin
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