- past perfect progressive of impose.
Example Sentences
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Cabell had been imposing increasingly tougher bail conditions beginning in July, when prosecutors said that Chan’s wife had booked airline tickets for herself, Chan and their daughter to fly to China.
From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2017
Cabell had been imposing increasingly tougher bail conditions beginning in July, when prosecutors said that Chan’s wife had booked airline tickets for herself, Chan and their daughter to fly to China.
From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2017
Vincent Kompany, City's captain, had been imposing to the point of frightening.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2013
The school had been imposing: a fallacy of glass and steel against the dusty expanse of the north shore clearing, like a middle finger thrown into the sky, built in record time.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Harris’s notion was, that it was he alone who had been working, and that both George and I had been imposing upon him.
From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
