had been foretasting

• 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 foretaste.
  foretaste

  noun

  a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.

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• assume
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