find
verb (used with object)
to come upon by chance; meet with.
had been finding
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past perfect progressiveof find.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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Nurses said they had been finding themselves in such situations more and more since 2018, when Ascension took over St. Joseph.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
The coroner's court in Norwich heard that Draco's mother, who was 20-weeks pregnant at the time, had been "finding it hard to manage" and the house had "got out of hand".
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2022
A complication had been finding 43 lawmakers to sign a petition demanding a change of leader.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2018
He had just come from the public health lab in New York City, where technicians had been finding markers for Zika in the blood of arriving travelers almost every day.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2017
I thought of the hours I had whiled away staring at its beauty and how hard it had been finding the right name for it.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
