forget
verb (used with object)
to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall.
had been forgetting
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past perfect progressiveof forget.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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Warner Bros. added that in recent months, Sheen had been forgetting his lines, turning up late, missing rehearsals and making "comments poisoning key working relationships."
From Reuters ● Mar. 11, 2011
His only mistake in trying to escape had been forgetting about the incoming tide.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
Suddenly she remembered her motto; she had been forgetting that the difficulties of the way were to be met in a strength not her own.
From Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword by Agnes Maule Machar
But when she was alone, and looked her joy in the face, she was amazed to find how she had been forgetting Theodora, whose affairs had lately been uppermost.
From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Charlotte Mary Yonge
While I had been forgetting other things, I had learned two new things—how to sleep and how to shoot—and now since there was no more need to practise the one, I would do the other.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
