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
The church clock struck, when suddenly the student said that he must leave—he had been forgetting himself—he had to join his companions.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Now a Lochaber man could hef been saying what he wass wanting for fifteen minutes, and nefer hef used the same word twice, unless he had been forgetting his Gaelic.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
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
