interrogate
verb (used with object)
to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
had been interrogating
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past perfect progressiveof interrogate.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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It may be inferred from an allusion by him in a letter that some of the Lords who had been interrogating him allowed their indignation at his apparent calumnies against Ralegh to be perceptible.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
Just inside the second door were Brisley and Gunn, both palpably ill at ease, and glancing at Inspector Whiteleaf, who had been interrogating them.
From Dope by Sax Rohmer
"I am afraid it's a very bad business, Mr Forster," replied the surgeon to Newton, who had been interrogating him relative to the injury received by Mr Spinney.
From Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
As he ceased to speak, I knew that Watson had been interrogating him, and that he was referring to the man we sought.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
I had not seen Mr. Jamieson since morning, but I knew he had been interrogating the servants.
From The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
