fetch
verb (used with object)
to go and bring back; return with; get.
had been fetching
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past perfect progressiveof fetch.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She had been fetching water in northern Uttarakhand state when the leopard pounced on her from nearby bushes - she fought back with a sickle and spade.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2014
The farm land had been fetching on an average some twenty to twenty-five pounds an acre.
From Hocken and Hunken by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
We had the awful thought that we should have to search every camp fire before we found our people, but luckily almost fell over Mawson, who had been fetching water.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
The old butler had been fetching up claret which the Squire had intended should be kept for a time.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
The rye, for the price of which he had so long held out, had been sold for fifty kopecks a measure cheaper than it had been fetching a month ago.
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett
