had been lodging
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past perfect progressiveof lodge.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
lodgenouna small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
Example Sentences
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He had been lodging at a house in Headington on weekdays since August.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2020
The deceased had been lodging at Yarmouth since the 15th, and had stated that her name was Hood.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
Because the General with his suite had been lodging there the night before, this apartment had escaped the arbitrary destruction.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
At four of the houses they went to a foreign sailor had been lodging there for the last day or so, but yesterday afternoon all had paid their reckoning and left.
From Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
And it hardly sounded as though the house to which he had been carried at his own request were the house where he himself had been lodging.
From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope