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Italian coast guard boats had been escorting the distressed fishing vessel toward shore when a breakdown forced it to need towing, slowing its advance.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2023

A group of the P-63 planes had been escorting the B-17, she said, while fireworks simulating bombs blasted.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2022

Sir Norman had been escorting the Queen and Prince Philip for the first opening of the Welsh Assembly on 26 May 1999.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2021

At length, as the road dwindled, the soldiers and police officers who had been escorting us turned around.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2018

This officer, in command of the Fourche, had been escorting the Città di Messina and, observing that she was torpedoed, had sent to her, perhaps a little imprudently, all his life-boats and belts.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry