had been eying

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of eye.
  eye

  noun

  the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.

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had been eying

Campbell had contributed money to Finkenauer’s campaign but also had been eying Franken.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2022

Crandon had been eying Revel for a year.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2015

Lieberman was 45 years old and had been eying Washington for a while, having lost a 1980 congressional race to Republican Larry DeNardis.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2011

A typical army bummer had been eying the scene with contemptuous silence.

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

The driver, who had been eying these clouds for some little time, felt that he ought to speak if she did not.

From The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green

Related Words

• check out
• contemplate
• inspect
• look at
• scan
• scrutinize