mind
noun
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc..
had been minding
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past perfect progressiveof mind.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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She said she had been "minding her own business at home" at the time of the incident in Liverpool, and that the situation had been "scary".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
He told me that he had been minding his own business in Harlingen, Texas, in 1996, when recruiters for I.B.P., a major meat packer, came through town, trying to lure workers to Iowa.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were several of us, strangers to each other, who hitherto had been minding our own business, but under the stress of this untoward thing became companionable.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 by Various
Only Qalagánguasê’s sister could hardly get out, and that was because her brother had been minding her little child, and his touch stayed her.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
