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had been injecting
  • past perfect progressive of inject.

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King, a laryngologist with Peak ENT and Voice Center, had been injecting Botox in the same muscle to treat people having a hard time swallowing after a stroke.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

For 9 days straight, health workers there had been injecting about 5000 people between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2021

The investigators were not even certain that Huang had been injecting olfactory ensheathing cells.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

The young researcher at Montreal's McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel as if Lee had been injecting new life through my veins.

From The Peril Finders by Piffard, Harold